Charles Ferguson Quotes
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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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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There is nothing better for me than to bring the bells in, in Scotland.
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When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one way or another, even though he knows nothing about the visible church. His kind of Christianity may not be socially desirable, but will be real in the sight of God.
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The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.
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I never experimented with the hoddu like I wanted to do. Like on the song "Allah Addu," the hoddu and the voice is something that belongs to West African culture. When you go to the north of Mali, in the past it was just the singer and one instrument player. We never really did have that on our CDs. On some other songs, like "Laare Yoo," we have a whole section of hoddu, something like four of them playing together.
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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
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Everyone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult.
