Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
It's discouraging how hard it is for a President to slice away large chunks of a $305 billion budget.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
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Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
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I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.
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The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
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I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
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It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.
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Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not, that idea doesn't last the duration of the painting. Sometimes it comes out easy, just as I had envisaged. But that is reasonably rare.
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I really wasn't into comic books growing up.
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I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.
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We have an obligation to our men and women in uniform - and to future generations - to do something about the issue of climate change.
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I make hit records. I make hit records to motivate the people.
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The fields and the flowers and the beautiful faces are not ours, as the stars and the hills and the sunlight are not ours, but they give us fresh and happy thoughts.|
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There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.
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I passionately support Hillary Clinton for president because she has devoted her life to public service and has been willing to learn and change along the way by listening to the people she serves.
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We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than rising to the challenges of the age.
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I think we made huge positive changes and Thunder Bay is in a better place than it was four years ago.
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It's discouraging how hard it is for a President to slice away large chunks of a $305 billion budget.
