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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While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.
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Testing is overrated.
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There are many dreams which I never wanna wake up from. Actually, I don't like waking up, full stop. So no matter what the dream is, I just don't wanna wake up and get out of bed.
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I've always had quite long canines. It's a very strange thing. My parents don't have them.
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The best dress for walking is nakedness. But our sad though fascinating world rarely offers the right and necessary combinations of weather and privacy, and even when it does the Utopia never seems to last very long.
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Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed or quarrelled, in troops and companies.
