Adam Ferguson Quotes
Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed or quarrelled, in troops and companies.
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I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
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I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
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Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.
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If something's not right, I don't believe in maintaining something for the sake of what's considered a traditional family, because I believe that there are different ways to raise children. It's far more effective to raise children in happy homes.
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I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.
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I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
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So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.
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The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.
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Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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'Don’t preach,' said Florentine violently. She was beginning to see the maze of lies and deceptions that lay before her.
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Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.
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We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty woman on our right who smells of apple blossoms. Our bowels stir and our cod itches and we amend our prayers for the spiritual life with the hope that it will not be too spiritual.
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If you call yourself an American that means that you have embraced the constitution, because that is what an American is. A citizen of the United States of America is someone who has sworn an oath of allegiance to that document, to the words, to the ideals of that document. Right now we have citizens who don't even understand what that document is.
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Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed or quarrelled, in troops and companies.
