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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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.
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The system is not really particularly amenable to filmmakers who write and direct their own work. It's much more about the studio already having a property that has a marketable concept and then hiring the director on board.
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As a leader, your job is to share your vision with your followers and either warn them of danger or highlight opportunities coming in the future.
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In a large congregation, while there is a wide diversification of interest, it is also true that there are only a few basic human problems. It must also be taken into consideration that people are people regardless of who they are or what their backgrounds may be. There are certain deep universal appeals to human interest and to these human nature always responds.
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We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
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Originally they wanted me to be Buster but I really like the Tobias part.
