Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.
Quotes to Explore
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Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.
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Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
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The general market wants what I do.
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Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them.
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Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.
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I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.
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Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song.
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The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.
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In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.
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When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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I told my doctor I got water on my knee, he gave me a sponge and raised his fee!
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What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army...our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms...
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A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
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If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it.
