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 certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms.
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I've gone on streaks where I haven't shot the ball well here, but I was always making up for it in other areas, so it wasn't as big. It's just a part of the game. I got to do better with it.
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I really admire people who have a natural sense of style. They have a super power.
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I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.
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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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You want to hire great people and give them the opportunity to fail. You need to let them figure things out as they go along. If they fail repeatedly, then you probably have to find a different person, but if you don't let people have that opportunity to fail, they don't get to learn and grow and try things.
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Even in his heyday, when he was being commissioned to write pieces, Mozart was a starving artist. He partied, he blew his money, he drank it away. I'm sure it parallels a lot of bands and musicians. He lived it up and didn't set anything aside and he died poor. That's rock 'n' roll.
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In a curious failure of comprehension, I looked alertly about me for possible targets for all this artillery fire, not, apparently, realizing that it was actually ourselves that the enemy gunners were trying for all they were worth to hit.
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I lived in LA for almost nine years and if I never went back there again it would be fine.
