Luke Ford Quotations

The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.

Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.

If 'Black Balloon' had come out before 'The Mummy,' casting agents wouldn't have been able to see me for the first time in 'The Mummy.' But now that 'The Mummy' has come out before 'The Black Balloon,' that's a very good combination.

I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing.

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.

The thing about me is I have a great little acting school. I teach about 125 students.

I'm one of the guys who wants to watch the film completely done, with special effects, sound and music, because I tend to get disappointed if I watch it not fully done.

Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.

I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.

I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.

Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people.

At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.

I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.

I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.

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Standardized tests don't measure everything in a child's life in school. We should take a look at the total education and not just what they can put on a bubble sheet.

While we want to be welcoming to the guests who are here, we also have to respect the fact that Otis is an active military base.

We will create far more stable and secure jobs. We all have to change and we all have to sacrifice.

With 'The Mummy' it was a fantasy action adventure. You get taken away for a few hours and come out and feel revamped and ready to go into the world and enjoy your next day at work.

Defensively, we let some things happen that we shouldn't have. They get 49 points, and there's a whole bunch of those that I don't like how they got them.

Even after we compensated for confounding factors like family history of depression, coffee drinking, or their year in medical school, we still came out with a very clear change in risk.

The way the play was written originally is that in the end Henry Higgins and Eliza separate because they aren't compatible because of Eliza's feminist views. They wanted a happier ending for the musical.

This is a show I've always wanted to do. I wanted to do this 15 years ago. We lived in San Diego and my church group there was going to get to do it and I had everything ready to go, but they didn't get the rights. They had to change everything at the last minute, and I've been holding on to the script and director's book since then.

Clearly the will of the people is that the Legislature make as its 'paramount' duty -- its top priority -- the education of all children. Not just some -- all.

It's a neutral that goes with everything, ... and the caramels range really from real caramel all the way to sort of flesh, nude, almost a pink shade. And I think those neutrals, both on the foot and in the hand, look new this season.

The economic and technological triumphs of the past few years have not solved as many problems as we thought they would, and, in fact, have brought us new problems we did not foresee

Accommodations are more like those of a dormitory than a hotel. These hotels are operating with few staff members, as a majority of hotel workers were among the thousands of people ordered to evacuate. Those hotels providing temporary shelter today will require significant refurbishing in the future before resuming normal operations and welcoming the traveling public.

as well as ''playgrounds for football, baseball, soccer and kindred games, or any games that are in their nature hazardous, or require fenced enclosures or tend to draw together crowds of people.

It's silly and demeaning to rate teachers using only the poorly defined 'learning gains' on the FCAT.

You don't want one teacher going up against another because money's going to be out there.

Everything we do affects other people.