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 almost every edition (and consequently most performances) of Chopin's Sonata in B flat Minor, Op. 35, there is a serious error that makes awkward nonsense of an important moment in the first movement. The repeat of the exposition begins in the wrong place.
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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.
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As a cure for the cold, take your toddy to bed, put one bowler hat at the foot, and drink until you see two.
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Public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.
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I lived in LA for almost nine years and if I never went back there again it would be fine.
