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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If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.
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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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The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
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Prayer enables us to transform the world because it transforms us.
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As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it.
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The secret of my success is that I deeply respect and learn from my peers and customers.
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A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only - that by his act he will change the course of history.
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When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.
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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.
