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Gerald R. Ford Quotes

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: president
Nationality: american
Birth: July 14, 1913 - December 26, 2006

Topics

History Experience Progress Moral Us

In my four years as a state legislator, I went to dozens of nontraditional events - everything from bird watchings to tree giveaways, neighborhood cleanups to self-defense clinics for women - going where people are instead of asking them to come to me. It's how I learned about their struggles and how legislative decisions affected their lives.

Women Bird Tree People Me Decisions

You know we're going to control the insurance companies.

Control Insurance You Know Going

I've never been involved in something where people cared about my personal life and the gossip of it!

Jennifer Damiano

Life People Gossip Personal Never

When I was at USC, I did a movie with somebody, and I had a blast doing it.

Doing Somebody Movie Did Blast Had

I actually don't think there is machismo in America, unless it's the cowboy type - the silent, smoking brooder.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Think Smoking America Silent Cowboy

When you make a film, you realize that the audience will be powerless to stop it or flip back to refresh their memories or skip the boring parts. They are at the mercy of your storytelling.

Memories You Back Stop Mercy Boring

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.

Words World Reality Bad Choice Been

There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.

Day Child World Look Country Need

Technology can be useful to organise a large number of people online and offline against the common goal of getting a particular dictator out of power. But at the end of the day, somebody still has to run for president with a different last name and deliver for the population.

Technology Power Day People Name

I hate Whole Foods.

Jonathan Franzen

Hate Whole Foods Whole Foods

When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, and the other was run by his former screenwriter.

City Growing Up Political Run Up

Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decisions behind you, and that's how you start to see the shape of what you've done. When you get far enough, you turn around and say, 'Ha, that's the movie.' It's only then that you find out if it's going to work or not.

Work Start Decisions Enough You Go

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