Niall Ferguson (Niall Campbell Ferguson) Quotes
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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
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I'm going to scream this from the mountain top, there's no such thing as 'a curry.' There's six kazillion different kinds of curry. When someone asks how to make chicken curry, I have to ask 'Which one?'
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El mal, débil, me agita; fuerte, me calma.
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[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.
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For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.
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For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.
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Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art....
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You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.
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That which a person works hardest on, he winds up having. That's one of the fundamentals of this universe.
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A period film is a gift for a cinematographer.
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You won't win if you don't begin.
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If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.
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...it is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are avenged down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to profanation of the blood and the race.
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I want to make clothes that are beautiful of course, but also clothes that are interesting and considered and intelligent and not out of place.
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He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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The sum of all the current regulations presents ever increasing hurdles.
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No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.
