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Richard Ford Quotes

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Happiness Me Know Important Write

If your work isn't mission-driven or emotionally resonant to you, it will be very hard to maintain passion and focus over a long period of time, which is critical in entrepreneurship.

Work Passion Time Focus Long You

There's an incredible amount of pain involved in being a human, but this humorous stuff is essential in overcoming it.

Pain Overcoming Human Involved Stuff

I came from a good, repressed Catholic background.

Robert Michael Morris

Good Background Catholic I Came Came

My personal view is that Iran, left to its own devices, will get itself to that step right below a nuclear weapon, that permanent breakout stage, so the needle isn't quite in the red for the international community. And, frankly, that will be as destabilizing as their actually having a weapon.

Community Red Step View Personal

Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly.

Nature Mother People Rest Gift Born

You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.

Great New York People Texas You New

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

Robert Benchley

Fear You Will Afraid Tell Us

At times, I can be a slave to money.

Money I Can Slave Times

My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.

Oklahoma Senate State Part Were

I always thought once you get your contract, I think that's when the accolades and all that stuff comes.

Chris Harris, Jr.

Think Thought You Always Contract

Love is the prize in life.

Life Love Love Is Prize

While I thought myself employed only in forming a nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.

Antoine Lavoisier

Work Myself Thought Language Nothing

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