David Cross Quotes
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Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.
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I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.
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People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'
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I've definitely had my moments in relationships where I've been able to say yes, I have been heartbroken, my heart has been broken.
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We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.
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We have Sunday morning breakfast before church. I don't do the dishes, but I do cook. I'm the griller.
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I felt like the dark hair added like a toughness to my face also, which was really important.
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I suppose the more established one gets, you have what's called a reputation, and so you want to protect that and preserve that. And I think the bravery really comes in one's mid career where you then are constantly trying to move beyond that and move past that, because those so-called successors can become shackles.
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My mother did movies from the New Wave, but I was quite shocked I didn't know much about that period. Bernado showed us film of the demonstrations of the time.
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I'm a generally optimistic person.
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Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.
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The best thing about me is there are no skeletons.
