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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I'd like to see that bipartisanship come back that we used to have in the House of Representatives, in the Clinton years. I think there's a possibility that the voters are going to send the message that everybody running - Congress, the Senate, the presidency - that they want us to come together.
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I listen a lot. I think people have their own answers, and if you just listen to someone and agree with them, eventually they'll work it out for themselves.
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When one cannot be sure that there are many days left, each single day becomes as important as a year, and one does not waste an hour in wishing that that hour were longer, but simply fills it, like a smaller cup, as high as it will go without spilling over.
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I’ve built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself.
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Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.
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I lived in LA for almost nine years and if I never went back there again it would be fine.
