David Cross Quotes
I lived in LA for almost nine years and if I never went back there again it would be fine.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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I really admire people who have a natural sense of style. They have a super power.
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Someone – a man – advised me not to become a news anchor because my eyelashes were too long, and they would distract the viewers.
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Our entire approach to the banking and financial services business is risk-adjusted returns. We believe that in most parts of the world, and including pockets in India, banking tends to mis-price risk.
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Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.
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I go to the hamam and put henna on my skin and hair. Even when I go to New York, I let the shower run hot to create a steam hamam at my hotel. But when I finish with the bath, I put on expensive French creams.
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We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.
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I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.
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I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.
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'In my experience,' he said with more than a touch of bitterness, 'the gods do not seem to care much what their servants deserve-or at least the rewards they give are too subtle for my understanding.'
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For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.
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Neither creator nor critic can make himself universal by barely taking thought about it. He is what he lives. The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts Into his work. The measure of the critic is the amount of life he finds there.
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Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others.
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I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is it.
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I'm seeing myself as an outsider a little bit - definitely when I started the band. I knew what band's name meant and nobody else really did, so I'd be on stage every night and say, "Hello, we're Art Brut" - basically saying that we were rejects. But I mean, I didn't really sing, it did feel a bit like we were outsiders. It was a bit tongue-in-cheek when I first named the band that, but then we slowly turned into that - like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
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I'd like to be smart, fun, and real. It's very easy to just put together a pretty dress, some heels, and some jewels. I don't want to be that girl. It's all about being brave, taking risks. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
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I lived in LA for almost nine years and if I never went back there again it would be fine.
