D'Brickashaw Ferguson Quotes

I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: algerian
  • Birth: December 10, 1983

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I think I was scared of the drag thing, as a lot of gay boys are. It's sort of knocked out of you in junior high. I wouldn't find guys who were very feminine attractive. Then, doing 'Hedwig,' I got to be man and woman, really butch and really femme at the same time, and I realized, this is kind of the ideal.

John Cameron Mitchell

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I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

John Grisham

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Security is a complicated idea and one with an immense potential to trap us - that was one lesson I learnt from my father.

John Lanchester

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If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity.

Amy Bloom

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I feel like the thing that motivates me is not making the Olympic team. If I'm having a rough day, I think about how bad I want it.

Aly Raisman

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All literature is gossip.

Truman Capote

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People always say 'You do racial comedy.' And I don't, exactly. I do cultural comedy. Because race and culture are two different things. There's black people from America and then there's black people from Africa. Racially, they're the same; culturally, they're extremely different.

Russell Peters

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It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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I fundamentally believe that your words have so much credibility if you're not taking money upfront. I feel really comfortable pushing actors and pushing executives and pushing marketing people when we're not going to benefit financially unless the movie works. I feel like that makes the playing field so much more level.

Jason Blum

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If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

Chuck Yeager

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Success can breed all kinds of other behavior and cause companies to behave a certain way that isn't necessarily the ingredients for achieving more success. For instance, with success comes arrogance, and that's typically the death of success.

Bob Iger

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I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Winston Churchill

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