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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A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.
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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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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.
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What we do about our feelings determines the quality of our relationship with ourselves.
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The President Barack Obama said if we get out of this business of trade expansion, we turn it over to the Chinese. This brings us into partnership with 11 other Pacific Rim countries.
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Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn't cringe when I saw myself on 'The Hour.' It actually exceeded my expectations; every shot looks like a vintage postcard and even my most brutally honest friends have said they think it's good.
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It's discouraging how hard it is for a President to slice away large chunks of a $305 billion budget.