Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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Music is about the performance.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe.
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I think when you're a TV presenter, you have to have a reason for doing it, and a lot of them have been around a long time and grafted for that. The reason why it works with me on 'The Xtra Factor' is because I was a contestant on it, and I have a relationship with the viewers at home.
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Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.
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Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.
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The philosophy of Kant's great successors was consciously a synthesis of Spinoza's and Kant's philosophies. Spinoza's characteristic contribution to this synthesis was a novel conception of God. He thus showed the way toward a new religion or religiousness which was to inspire a wholly new kind of society, a new kind of Church.
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If anyone says, 'Let's have a girls' night out,' I will run in the opposite direction.
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I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.
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I think that our goal in Good Charlotte is just to be Good Charlotte, and whatever happens, whatever that means, we don't even know, and make music and whatever.
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They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.
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Personally, I enjoy a bowl of brown rice for breakfast most of the time.
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Hardcovers will never completely disappear. They are delightful to hold; they feel weighty and substantial. But my anecdotal evidence suggests that the world is changing.
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As a sub, you just want to help your team in whatever way you can.
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We have to be willing to do whatever it takes to win.
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Most of my interviews have been with millennials, and it's been a fascinating window into my kids' world. It's been so wonderful to see a generation that seems so savvy in so many ways - and so much cooler than we were.
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Rather than name-calling and arguing about whether it is appropriate or not to employ radical tactics, we progressives need to start listening to each other.
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Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed.
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My goal is to get outs as soon as I can. Strikeouts aren't that big a deal to me.
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It's more like it is now than it ever has been.
