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President Gerald R. Ford was never one for second-guessing, but for many years after leaving office in 1977, he carried in his wallet a scrap of a 1915 Supreme Court ruling. 'A pardon,' the excerpt said, 'carries an imputation of guilt,' and acceptance of a pardon is 'a confession of it.'

Scott Shane

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AcceptanceGuiltSaidLeavingOffice

You have to fix something when it first appears.

Joe Torre

YouFixFirstSomethingAppears

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

Max Lerner

PeaceEndBrotherhoodWishYouMay

I like to eat really early, 4 or 5 o'clock. That helps out a lot, to digest before you sleep.

John John Florence

SleepYouEarlyEatOutLike

My mother used to stop me from going to DJ battles. I'd, like, cry, get really upset.

Statik Selektah

MotherMeDJStopCryUpset

My 20s were a blizzard of rejection slips.

MaryJanice Davidson

RejectionWereBlizzardSlips

Both my New Hampshire great-grandfathers wore facial hair: the Copperhead who fought in the war and the sheep farmer too old for combat.

Donald Hall

WarHairFarmerSheepNewOld

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.

Anne Lamott

FunnyLoveI AmMeSomeoneRise

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Alfred Hitchcock

AnticipationBangOnlyTerror

Some directors don't say much. Michael Mann, for example. I remember on 'The Insider' he never had much to say. He would do a scene, just kind of nod, and then set it up to do it again. And you might do a scene 10 or 12 times or more, the same little 31-second bit. And you could tell he wasn't satisfied, but he wouldn't say much.

Philip Baker Hall

RememberYouSayKindMoreNever

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

Sydney J. Harris

ArtLivingKnowingObeyMustMade

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.

Sharon Olds

WritingBeingWellOne ThingReally

I was a stunt man for 35 years.

Richard Farnsworth

ManYearsStunt

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