D'Brickashaw Ferguson Quotes

Everyone's struggle is different. Just because I wasn't struggling on the streets, it doesn't mean I don't know what it's like to struggle.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

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• Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Technology

• I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Freedom
  • Imagination
  • Create

• I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Done
  • Mean

• I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Think

• If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• Put me in a costume, and I'm your man. I must have one of those faces which seems to suit period drama more than modern films and TV programmes. But I'm not complaining, I love going back in time. I feel quite lucky because nobody knows who I am. I can walk about and have ordinary conversations with people.

  

  Hans Matheson
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Believe
  • Find
  • Jazz

• We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Beautiful
  • Day
  • Band

• We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Love
  • Result
  • Judged

• The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Life
  • Character
  • Experience

• I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Dance
  • Knowing
  • Taught

• I'm such a perfectionist.

  

  Candice Glover
  • Perfectionist

• How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Exercise

• Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Night
  • Me
  • Dance

• Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Long
  • Funny
  • Progress

• The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Better

• 'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking

• I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether we were wealthy, working-class or in between. We spent a decade feasting on easy money, don't-pay-as-you-go consumerism and a metastasizing celebrity culture.

  

  Frank Rich
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Celebrity

• Thanks to our modern era, facts are incredibly easy to come by. A few web searches for your subject matter, and you have all the information you could dream of.

  

  Andy Weir
  • Dream
  • Thanks

• It's time to penetrate and find somebody else if that's not the shot you're making or you're comfortable with. You have to know that.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Time
  • Comfortable
  • Penetrate

• A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.

  

  Marcel Pagnol

• I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Different
  • Done
  • Characters

• Everyone's struggle is different. Just because I wasn't struggling on the streets, it doesn't mean I don't know what it's like to struggle.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Different
  • Know
  • Struggle