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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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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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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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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A 007 James Bond image is very dangerous for a central banker to have.
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Activism isn't beautiful and easy, or a bunch of people getting together and picketing; it's a lot more complicated and difficult than that.
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I'm over this thing of being champion, having the title.
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Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.
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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
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There's always something funny about men chasing women.
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Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance 'Swan Lake?' No. Would you just put a violin in your hand and - ? No. I felt that way about acting, and I was taught to feel that way. I didn't come to it on my own.
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So it just goes to show you that it was always the Hells Angels first. They were the originals and all other clubs try and imitate what the Hells Angels have already done.
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The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need to hype our films.
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Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed or quarrelled, in troops and companies.
