David Cross Quotes
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
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It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.
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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
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Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.
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I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.
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Young Indians are energetic and ambitious, have lots of ideas. They work around the difficult situation they face here. But the big challenge is to market products and services to the West, because costs there aren't coming down.
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And I've always believed in what Martin Luther King, Jr. called 'the fierce urgency of now' - we should not fear change, we should embrace it.
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The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.
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To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.
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The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.
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The fame thing has happened very gradually, so I've been kind of lucky.
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I'm the No. 1 developer in New York, I'm the biggest in Atlantic City, and maybe we'll keep it that way.
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Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
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An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.
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Heroes do not dwell in a time of peace; heroes are hardened in a kiln against the sorrows. Their troubles sharpen the blade and make it gleaming. The glint becomes a brightness that is raised high on a hill, allowing women and men to see beyond themselves. For light swallows darkness. Truth buries death. Heroes are not born. They are filled by Music.
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Every second that you're filming, you have a myriad of choices to make.
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No matter how much insight and understanding we develop, the rational brain is basically impotent to talk the emotional brain out of its own reality. I am continually impressed by how difficult it is for people who have gone through the unspeakable to convey the essence of their experience.
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Originally they wanted me to be Buster but I really like the Tobias part.
