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Niall Ferguson Quotes

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Never Things British Understood

In starting to learn about film festivals and what were good ones - 'cause there are five billion of them - it was just a really good East Coast festival. And I thought this little movie was an East Coast film.

Andrew McCarthy

Good Thought Learn Festivals Little

The thing with sculpture is, 90% of the time, when I pass a piece of sculpture, it's in public or somewhere, and it's just, how inconvenient that that's there. It takes up so much room, and it's so oppressive.

Time Sculpture Up Room Somewhere

Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.

People Just Because Authority Right

Getting into shape helped get me into a better mood, and when I'm in a better mood, I'm funnier. My general attitude is better.

Attitude Me Better Mood Shape Get

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

Stephen Ambrose

People Buildings More High Destroyed

Art is a sense of magic.

Art Magic Sense

I have always worried about things more than I should.

More Always Things Than Should

You could take the Internet enthusiasm that was happening in 1999 and 2000 here in the U.S., and in China it was three-to-five times more ebullient.

Internet Enthusiasm You More China

I have to be honest about this: I wouldn't tell a lot of kids to go and be writers. It's a tough, tough business. It's not a business. It's more like a tough road. It's a really tough road.

Business Road Tough Go More Tell

We are all very individual. You have to find out what you can do best, and be self-conscious about that.

Joshua Lederberg

Best You Find Out Individual Very

We were made to exercise. We feel better.

Better Feel Exercise Made Were

We cannot let our guard down in the face of terror.

Face Down Guard Cannot Our Terror

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