Charles Ferguson Quotes

When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about.

Charles Ferguson

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• If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Question
  • Look
  • Make A Difference

• Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Long
  • Women
  • Way

• Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Happy
  • Person
  • Eighty

• As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Mother
  • Legal

• It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Mother
  • Nice
  • Director

• 'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Life
  • True
  • Value

• My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Myself
  • Idea
  • Original

• Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Being
  • Interdependence

• My awkward stage extended well into high school.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.

  

  Barry Corbin
  • Think
  • Years
  • Hollywood

• I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Star
  • Audience
  • Director

• I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Religious
  • Hair
  • Never

• All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Children
  • School

• You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • World
  • Talent
  • Determination

• My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain, as I experienced it in my childhood, not only for itself, but for what it represented for me.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Childhood

• The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • America
  • War

• Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Wisdom

• Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Important
  • Speak
  • Message

• Imagine stepping into the shoes of Roberto Duran, one of the most legendary boxers in the history of the sport, and definitely the most legendary Latin American boxer, and then having 'Raging Bull' in my corner. I mean, imagine that? Just having Robert De Niro to play the trainer in the movie, that was fantastic.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • American
  • History
  • Movie

• I feel like when you do things with such a small budget, it actually makes you be more creative... and allows you to concentrate more on the story and the characters. I think that there is something about dirty, gritty and raw filmmaking that makes it feel a little more natural and makes it easier to connect with the action.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Small
  • Action
  • Creative

• Information technology and the Internet are rapidly transforming almost every aspect of our lives - some for better, some for worse.

  

  John Landgraf
  • Technology

• What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than not, this is the more important story: What policy wins if the one being disclosed loses?

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Important
  • Why
  • Winning

• When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about.

  

  Charles Ferguson
  • Movie
  • Financial
  • Make