Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad. In all my public and private acts as your President, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.
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I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.
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Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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I know it's silly, but I still think I'm 28.
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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.
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Any professional athlete will tell you that the mind is everything. For me, there is no shame in saying that I visualize and I meditate, because it really works.
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I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.
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If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
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Governments ... should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities.
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I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad. In all my public and private acts as your President, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.
