Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
As President, I am determined to offer leadership to overcome our current economic problems. My goal is for jobs for all who want to work and economic opportunity for all who want to achieve.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
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I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
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Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
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There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.
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I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
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It is always the teacher who must learn the most … or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.
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I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.
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It's the big boys, the Googles of this world, that are already benefiting from piracy and not paying the artists a dime.
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You would think that wrestling has so much to do with being aggressive and having a big ego, and it's exactly the opposite.
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The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
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When I'm not shooting, I'm a leggings and boots girl. I like cute and casual - for me, it's all about feeling good and being comfortable.
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Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?
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When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.
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My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing.
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For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population.
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I've always had high expectations of myself. I've never felt that there was anything I couldn't do in this world.
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We benefit from foreign direct investment. Many Americans are employed by foreign companies with plants in the United States, for example in the automobile industry. So, trade is a two way street. I think, it is important to protect Americans who lose their jobs, or whose jobs come under pressure from international trade. But, I think, we need to be careful not to embrace economic isolationism.
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We have disagreements as to what race does and ought to mean, but we have a remarkable consensus on what it is, without any ability to define it technically.
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Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.
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As President, I am determined to offer leadership to overcome our current economic problems. My goal is for jobs for all who want to work and economic opportunity for all who want to achieve.
