Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.
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Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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My cousin once told me, 'You're tall, you're handsome - and you're gonna have to apologize for it the rest of your life.' He imparted that information to me.
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Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.
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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
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As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
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It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.
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At 9, I think I had really gotten into tennis. I liked writing short stories; I loved solving math problems. I was learning a little piano, and I was collecting Garbage Pail Kids cards.
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If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean I'm gay.
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We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.
