Adam Ferguson Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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I read a lot of true crime growing up – 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.
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As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.
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I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.
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Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
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Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.
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Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to his freedom. He will become himself only when he is totally demysticized. He will not be truly free until he has killed the last god.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
