Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
The spirit of seeking understanding through personal contact with people of other nations and other cultures deserves the respect and support of all.
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The world is always in movement.
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The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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I am very much a Republican.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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Too clever is dumb.
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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
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We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.
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I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.
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Kids and adults are treated differently on sets. Being a kid, you can get away with anything, and it looks cute. But as an adult, it's a whole new journey.
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I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.
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Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
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We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.
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Make [food] simple and let things taste of what they are.
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I don't think people should be priced out of going to the theatre... But we have to recognise that it is a show business.
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If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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The spirit of seeking understanding through personal contact with people of other nations and other cultures deserves the respect and support of all.
