Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
-
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
-
I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
-
No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
-
The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
-
The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
-
The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
-
Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
-
When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
-
There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in general. And some people, the press just doesn't care about at all.
-
Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
-
Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
-
It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's such a pro. He's so good.
-
Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in a short period, let us say 20 years, and you don't have a well-developed private sector, entrepreneurial class, then central planning is important.
-
My friends are my family.
-
Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
-
It has not been hard to grow older, because I believe if you have something you believe in, that will keep you alive far more than plastic surgery or Botox.
-
I love when I go to conventions, and often it'll be the younger kids who will refer to us by our character names - how can you not find that absolutely charming? I remember when I used to go to conventions when I was a kid when I would stand in long lines to get people's autograph.
-
My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.
-
I am lucky enough to be married to a guy who tells me I look beautiful every day.
-
Theater really is an actor's medium: you're on stage with no director anymore, whereas in film very rarely do you get much rehearsal other than running through the scene very quickly. Then everyone comes in and shoots it.
-
It's funny, because when you're younger you're in a rush to be 18 or 21 or whatever. But then you hit 30. And now, the days go by like hours. You think, 40, man, this could be the halfway point. It could be the three-quarters point, you know? Who knows?
-
By the time a kid goes to college, if he's taking math or science, at least he knows, or you hope he knows, some basics. But if you're teaching history in college, you have a lot of damage to undo. You basically have to start over because so much of what a kid has already learned is just wrong.
-
This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts.
