Charles Ferguson Quotes
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
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I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.
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Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
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For Black Label Special Opps, adversity is what you thrive on. General Patton is a huge fan favorite in Black Label.
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The education ministry files suit every time there is a case of identity fraud.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more ... to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
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Humility is not weakness, but strength under control
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So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
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Prism! Where is that baby?
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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
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There are also fundamental issues related to what the current leader, President [Barack] Obama, said. I am referring to his idea about American exceptionalism. I am skeptical about this idea.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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Everyone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult.
