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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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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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'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
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The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
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Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
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All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
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I live in L.A. Now.
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.
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An important question to ask is, 'Where and when did decoration and utility first meet?
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Change is the law of God's mind and resistance to it is the source of all pain.
