Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
Ronald Reagan was an excellent leader of our nation during challenging times at home and abroad.
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The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.
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You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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I love whimsical things and forests. I'm really into all that.
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The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.
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Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do.
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I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.
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Fortunately or not, expectations are always high for all my films.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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My goal is to continue to act and still be a professional kiteboarder.
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I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
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The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.
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Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less tolerance for in South Africa. We've come such a long way in terms of race relations and the economy as well as people's willingness to move on. There are still a lot of things that are frustrating about being in South Africa.
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The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.
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Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to how movies use it to establish the moral strength of a household), the opening night montage of Sunday-night supper in one home after another in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 - a whole community saying grace - made me expect the worst.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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Ronald Reagan was an excellent leader of our nation during challenging times at home and abroad.
