Will Ferrell Quotes
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I love cycling.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
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I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
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Waste paper is like a forest - paper recycles itself, generation after generation.
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Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don't see him as boyfriend material. He's just there, but you know all the same people.
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If Obama's enormous symbolic power draws primarily from being the country's first black president, it also draws from his membership in hip-hop's foundational generation.
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Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
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When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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When we associate with others we really associate with ourselves. We like or dislike in others whatever we like or dislike in ourselves.
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Not being as self-contained as men, we need to share things: It's almost as though you only know what you feel about things after you share them with a woman.
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In the field of astronomy in the mid-'60s, quasars were very sexy objects - gigantic, star-like masses about which little was known. I was a graduate research student at Cambridge working towards my Ph.D. and chose quasars as the subject for my thesis. Part of my project involved surveying the sky for them using a radio telescope.
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I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
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When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.
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I was very struck by the fact that Robin Hood became increasingly taken over by the middle and upper classes. He starts out a bandit but becomes a fully fledged aristocrat.
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I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.
