Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the metaphysical nuances and make the story come to life with their deeper significance. The current generation is missing out on this.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
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Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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It's really hard to copy another actor and be successful. In fact, that's usually the reason people are not good, because they're copying something they've seen, but, for some reason with their face and their body, it doesn't work.
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"Gender trouble" is old. I mean, you know, in New York, it is old. I mean it's sweet. I mean people are really kind about it but it's like a former love affair you had and you're done.
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I definitely people-watch. I often see photos of myself with my children: I'm always in the background with my mouth wide open, looking somewhere else.
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I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.
