Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
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I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
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There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
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Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.
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I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
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Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
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America's parenting customs can shock foreigners.
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It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.
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We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.
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And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
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AIDS had landed and I was terrified. I was very scared, just as everyone was in the '80s. It was really hard to be sexually active and to sleep with men and with women and not feel you had a responsibility in terms of having safe sex.
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Truth is the glue that holds government together.
