Andrew Ferguson Quotes
Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments.
Andrew Ferguson
Quotes to Explore
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We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
Idina Menzel
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The Church was the preserver of the remnants of intellectual culture, the sole schoolmistress of the raw peoples. Her clergy long had almost a monopoly of education, and were the secretaries of the nobles, the chancellors and prime ministers of kings.
Walter Rauschenbusch
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
Nadine Gordimer
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It's a long road to the Derby, but I think he's got the capabilities to do it, ... He's never done anything that would make us second guess him, and hopefully we can keep on going.
Stevie Wonder
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What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?
Samuel Hoffenstein
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Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization.
Brian Tracy
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You can train to be ready for the nerves, and we simulate it all the time, but it's never the same when it actually matters.
Mirai Nagasu
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Whenever the results of the investigation come to the surface, then the time will be suitable to talk about forming the new government.
Ayad Allawi
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Every play should be 90 minutes. There would be so many more theatre-goers if plays were shorter.
Eve Myles
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I think America is a really interesting place. In New Zealand, we don't sue each other really commonly. There's a really specific reason, like someone's arguing over a fence that's been put up that's too high. Sort of practical things. And journalists are rarely sued for things. Whereas in America, you have a culture where that's the first thing you do. There's an ongoing pattern here where if you've got money, you can bully other people into doing what you want them to do. You don't need to be in it to win, you just need to be in it to be a pest.
David Farrier
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My parents deeply and truly loved each other, and if my mother hadn't died they would have been together forever. They were together for as much of forever as was given to them. They really loved my brother and me and were very good to us. It gave the model of how to have a happy marriage and family, but it also set the bar very high.
Andrew Solomon
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I have always been very family-oriented. I came from a dysfunctional, broken family growing up, and it's probably instilled in me the need and the want to have a strong family and a great foundation. So I think that is something that I naturally gravitate toward.
Octavia Spencer
