Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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Mutual investments of Israeli and American companies strengthen economic ties between the two countries and contribute to Israel and to the U.S. alike.
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
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It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself.
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As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.
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Arbitration is justice blended with charity.
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Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand that the life we've led since 1945 in the Western world is very rare in human history. Our children are unlikely to enjoy anything so placid, and may well spend their adult years in an ugly and savage world unless we decide that who and what we are is worth defending.
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Eat your words! Eat your words! I am the greatest.
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Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.
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To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
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I believe that, that Christ became sin for us.
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It is in the very nature of a beginning to carry with itself a measure of complete arbitrariness. Not only is it not bound into a reliable chain of cause and effect, a chain in which each effect immediately turns into the cause for future developments, the beginning has, as it were, nothing whatever to hold on to; it is as though it came out of nowhere in either time or space.
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Everybody says I can't act. They said the same thing about Elizabeth Taylor. And they were wrong. She was great in A Place in the Sun. I'll never get the right part, anything I really want. My looks are against me. They're too specific.
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I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time. In fact I often say that the biggest difference between classical music and everything else is that classical musicians sometimes shut up because they're told to, because the score tells them to. Whereas any music that's sort of based on folk or jazz, everybody plays all the time.
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The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.
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When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.
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They're very organized and the equipment moves in a hurry. They may hit a rig here and the equipment ends up in Houston.
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
