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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I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke.
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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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In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and disappointments, but also I think it was, in the long run, it was very good for me in a whole bunch of ways.
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I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.
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Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.
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When I was a kid I used to drink from the tap all the time. I'd run back into the flat all hot and sweaty from playing and didn't even bother putting it in a glass, just turned the tap on and stuck my mouth underneath it. If my mom caught me doing it she used to scold me, but my dad just said that I had to be careful. 'What if a fish jumped out?' he used to say. 'You'd swallow it before you knew it was there.' Dad was always saying stuff like that and it wasn't until I was seventeen that I realised it was because he was stoned all the time.
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I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.
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I lived in LA for almost nine years and if I never went back there again it would be fine.
