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01c. 1962 AD

Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.

Craig Ferguson / quote

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02c. 1962 AD

Laughter separates us from despair, and gives us a chance at love.

Craig Ferguson / quote

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03c. 1962 AD

I freely admit I'm confused. I'm a confused and troubled individual but at the same time...Its Free!

Craig Ferguson / quote

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04c. 1962 AD

I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don't believe that.

Craig Ferguson / quote

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05c. 1962 AD

Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.

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06c. 1962 AD

America truly is the best idea for a country that anyone has ever come up with so far. Not only because we value democracy and the rights of the individual, but because we are always our own most effective voice of descent....We must never mistake disagreement between Americans on political or moral issues to be an indication of their level of patriotism. If you don't like what I say or don't agree with where I stand on certain issues, then good. I'm glad we're in America, and don't have to oppress each other over it. We're not just a nation, we're not an ethnicity. We are a dream of justice that people have had for a thousand years.

Craig Ferguson / quote

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07c. 1962 AD

I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all classification is the root of prejudice.

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08c. 1962 AD

Be careful who you choose as your hero or who you choose to deify, be it Clay Aiken or Barack Obama. You put all you're hope and all your dreams and all your ideas about stuff into one human being. They're a human being they're going to let you down. You can't make someone your hero because of something you read on the internet. The internet is not a source of information it is a source of disinformation.

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09c. 1962 AD

I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you.

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10c. 1962 AD

It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew?

Craig Ferguson / quote

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11c. 1962 AD

I realize that I am not a journalist. So anything I say is not important.

Craig Ferguson / quote

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12c. 1962 AD

My job is to find the politicians and the presidents and the pompous people who are telling other people how to live, powerful, visible creatures and ... go at them.

Craig Ferguson / quote

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13c. 1962 AD

For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say "Good morning, sir" or "madam," depending on what is appropriate, you wait until you are greeted, you make polite chitchat about the weather or some such, and when the salesperson asks what they can do for you, then and only then do you bring up the vulgar business of the transaction you require.

Craig Ferguson / quote

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14c. 1962 AD

I realized women and humor were linked very closely.

Craig Ferguson / quote

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15c. 1962 AD

It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.

Craig Ferguson / quote

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16c. 1962 AD

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.

Craig Ferguson / quote

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17c. 1962 AD

I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'

Craig Ferguson / quote

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18c. 1962 AD

I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.

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19c. 1962 AD

The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.

Craig Ferguson / quote

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