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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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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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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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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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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Do what you love, and do it well - that's much more meaningful than any metric.
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The myth of the Kennedys - and the hold - was always the hold of the renegade rich, out there on the frontier beyond accountability.
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Indiana houses the home offices of most fraternities and sororities in the country. If Indiana doesn't pass a law that guarantees people that they'll be free of discrimination, those fraternities and sororities need to move out of Indiana.
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I think everything belongs in a certain place, for kids who feel they don't belong anywhere. A museum is an institution like a library where everything has a place, everything belongs.
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Reaching beyond where you are is really important.
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A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a man will deliberately cheat to the amount of a single cent, give him opportunity and he would cheat to any amount.
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The simulacrum now hides, not the truth, but the fact that there is none, that is to say, the continuation of Nothingness.
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What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.
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Who will you have to become, to achieve all you want?
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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.
