Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.'
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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I have got no problem with used games. I've bought plenty of used games.
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Connected with the fall of Satan is his lameness. The devil is represented in art and in legion as limping on one foot; this was occasioned by his having broken his leg in his fall.
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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
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I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.
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You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.
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Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.
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As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.
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One thing I know that's true about horror fans of any color is they like to be scared. And the easiest place to be scared is in a new thing.
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Why is it that countries which we call strong' are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard? Why is it, why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so hard?
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'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'
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And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.
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Here, in low earth orbit, we're going around the earth, so we can actually use an Internet protocol phone because we have the appropriate satellites that can get those bandwidths.
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When you first start out with something new, you're always a little uptight.
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I grew up thinking that it was immoral to idealize the past because, in the past, there was slavery and no penicillin.
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Your voice is important - it gives away everything about you. The mouth is a muscle you have to work like you'd work at the gym.
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Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.'
