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Richard Ford Quotes

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: February 16, 1944

Topics

Job Empathy People Curiosity Person

I think God calls and encourages us to dream big, but sometimes we put God in a box in a very small way, when God wants us to look outside the box.

God Small Think Look Dream Way

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

Jerome K. Jerome

Business Happy People Me You More

There's one political party in this country, and that's the corporate party.

Political Party Country Corporate

When it came to religion, I felt I belonged to no one. It saddened me, it angered me, it confused me, and it made me religiously ambivalent. So I chose my calling: Cubs baseball.

Religion Baseball Me Confused Cubs

My parents were very famous, but they were never snobs.

Parents Famous Never Very Were

I once wrote on my MySpace profile that music is never authentic. It was a reaction to constantly reading the word 'authentic' in connection with bands. But what does that mean? A baby crying after being pushed out of its mother's womb, now that's what I'd call authentic.

Mother Music Baby Reading Connection

We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it.

Education Money World Down Rat Lead

I am very impulsive when it comes to experimenting with my looks and love playing with ideas by involving people from all walks of life.

Life Love I Am People Ideas Looks

People don't understand real musicians anymore. Jack White is great - he's the real thing - but he isn't having hits.

Great People Musicians White Real

A few drugs - such as beta-blockers, statins and glycogen control medications - have proved very effective at managing hypertension, heart disease, diabetes and strokes. Most insurance plans charge something for them. Why not make drugs like these free? Not for everyone, but just the groups for whom they are provably effective.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Heart Control Free Insurance Plans

One of the best sleight-of-hand guys I know is a plumber.

Best Know Plumber Guys

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Learn You Way Cat Things Hold

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