Chris Crutcher Quotes
When you're watching somebody read your material and they smile and nod, you know you've found that place where your experience and their experience match, even though they aren't the same exact experience.
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It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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My father had very little formal education.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.
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At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.
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If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.
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Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.
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When I started out as an activist, the issues were much clearer. There's advantage to the new media, but on the other hand, you miss the ability to frame an issue that you had when there were just three TV networks: CBS, NBC, and ABC. So the whole world could see the same police dogs. The same Bull Connor and his white tank. Now you've got narrow-casting. The media is all fragmented. It's so hard to get people to focus in a sustained way.
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The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
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Indeed it is possible to stand with one foot on the inevitable 'banana peel' of life with both eyes peering into the Great Beyond, and still be happy, comfortable, and serene - if we will even so much as smile.
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The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
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I am the comedy version of ambidextrous. I'm working with my left and right hand. I'm the two-sided coin. I'm all of those metaphors you can think of. I'm the interracial couple. I'm BET and CBS.
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When you're watching somebody read your material and they smile and nod, you know you've found that place where your experience and their experience match, even though they aren't the same exact experience.
