Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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I would say our sound is soul pop.
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
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I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
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One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
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You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
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The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.
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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
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And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.
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In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.
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When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster: the entertainer, the fiddler, the performer.
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I have always meticulously storyboarded my films from beginning to end.
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Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.
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I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.
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More than comparing with somebody else, I'd prefer comparing my own work from film to film.
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The war with Japan had been enacted in the game rooms at the War College by so many people and in so many different ways that nothing that happened during the war was a surprise-absolutely nothing except the kamikaze tactics toward the end of the war. We had not visualized these.
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When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The implosion of the Soviet Union and a historic diffusion of economic and geopolitical power created new influences and established new global power centers - and new threats.
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I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.
