David Cross Quotes

Originally they wanted me to be Buster but I really like the Tobias part.

David Cross

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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.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Work
  • Football
  • Fitness

• I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Funny
  • Shoes
  • Three

• 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.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Country
  • America
  • Health

• I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Important
  • Happy
  • Enjoy

• 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.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Important
  • Future
  • Failure

• We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Better
  • Succeed
  • Concert

• 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.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Book
  • Easy
  • Author

• Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Never
  • Language

• Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Always

• I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Sick

• 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.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Challenge

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Fear
  • King
  • Fierce

• The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.

  

  Annie Besant

• 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.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Time
  • Good
  • Value

• 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.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Hero

• I'm the No. 1 developer in New York, I'm the biggest in Atlantic City, and maybe we'll keep it that way.

  

  Donald Trump
  • City

• We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.

  

  Bob Ehrlich
  • Life
  • Work
  • Responsibility

• During my 40s, I thought I couldn't wear red lipstick. I thought it was just too much and I couldn't do it anymore. I don't know why. But now, I'm going to wear red lipstick for as long as I want.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Long
  • Why
  • Red

• My illness has changed me - I've always thought "life is short and I wanna make as much of it as I can," but I really don't have time to mess around. This has really been a wake-up call in terms of what's important, and I'm working hard to figure that out. I need to get better at not doing favors for people all the time. It's hard because there's so many people who have helped me get to the point where I'm in a band that people wanna come see, or where people pay money to see me lecture.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Important
  • Changed

• I love TV. I love the stability of it.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Stability

• There are too many 50-year-olds dressing as 20-year-olds.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Many
  • Dressing
  • Too

• I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Work
  • Success
  • Secret

• Originally they wanted me to be Buster but I really like the Tobias part.

  

  David Cross