Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?... Let us show that we can temper together those opposite elements of liberty and restraint into one consistent whole. Let us set an example for the world of a law-abiding America glorying in its freedom as well as its respect for law.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
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Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.
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And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth.
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You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you're going to be rewarded with something that is going to please the shareholder.
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I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?
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People know me for up – tempo songs because of my hits.
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I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.
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The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate.
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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
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Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.
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You are the man newly arrivingat history’s worm-ravaged door,the woman whose shadows are salvesupon the bleeding breasts of the earth,the infant whose heartbeatfloods every harp in Paradise.
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I like to think of the senses as having a volume control in the brain. The volume turns up on all the other senses when you lose one.
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I'm not sure about prizes. I don't know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a 'National Poetry Day,' like a 'No Smoking Day,' is just shelving the problem. Things which should by rights be every day are not best served by these things.
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On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into another.
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... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.
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Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?... Let us show that we can temper together those opposite elements of liberty and restraint into one consistent whole. Let us set an example for the world of a law-abiding America glorying in its freedom as well as its respect for law.
