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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I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important
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The first thing that always pops into my head regarding our president, is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him... They just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white - very white; American, Kansas, middle of America. There is no argument about who he is, or what he is. America's first black president hasn't arisen yet. He's not America's first black president. He's America's first mixed-race president.
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I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.
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You are part of the first generation of officers to begin your service in a world where the effects of climate change are so clearly upon us. Climate change will shape how every one of our services plan, operate, train, equip, and protect their infrastructure, today and for the long-term.
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I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.
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It's discouraging how hard it is for a President to slice away large chunks of a $305 billion budget.
