Craig Ferguson Quotes
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.
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I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.
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The world is my workshop. It is not my home.
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There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.
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We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.
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For years, comprehensive tax reform has eluded legislators.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.
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I basically never believed that I was a commercial actor. Just because of the outcome of many auditions over time. No one hired me.
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Change is the law of God's mind and resistance to it is the source of all pain.
