Christopher Cross Quotes
People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone.
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I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.
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The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.
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This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
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Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
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Nowadays, kids... young actors... they go straight to L.A. before they've even done anything.
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I felt Michael Jackson was inspired a little bit more from the elegance of a Fred Astaire. Michael loved Sammy Davis, Jr. and James Brown and Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. But he wasn't any of those people. To be inspired is one thing, but he made it all his own.
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People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone.
