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Niall Ferguson Quotes

I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: April 18, 1964

Topics

Brother Conversation Celebrity Big

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control. And it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realized that you either became a power or you were crushed.

Wisdom Age Power Control You Early

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Good Long Follow Own Upward Bent

Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life.

Life Passion History Details More

My blog is actually all self-photography unless it's a photo shoot.

Solange Knowles

Shoot Photo Shoot Photo Actually

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Shirley Chisholm

Progress Ideas You Complaining Make

We have to get the tax revenues up. That means we have to get back to a healthy American economy, grow the economy so that you make more money. I make more money, ordinary Americans make more money, and so does the government. That helps lessen the deficit.

Money Government Grow American You

I had my first apartment when I was 16. I got good grades, so my friends would be able to come over to 'study.' We'd party, and they'd cheat off me. Everybody won!

Good Me Friends Party Grades First

So much of performing is a mind game.

Mind Game Performing Much

Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves.

Dog Good Best World Pressure Said

Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.

Work Silence Story Doubt Long Tell

When you're doing eight shows a week, you don't have much of a personal life.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Life Doing Week You Personal Eight

I love music. I love every kind of extreme sort of music, and many different genres, and if I were to have to dedicate myself to just one kind of genre, I would feel kind of gypped. I'd be like, man, I wish I could do this or that. And really all it takes is trying it out.

Love Music Myself Man Feel Wish

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