David Cross Quotes
I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
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I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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Everybody has their first love. I think it goes back to being in love with the idea of being in love. Everybody wants love, and your first love is special. You've never experienced anything like that. It's good to have a fond memory of it.
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Who you truly are is a place of no particular thing, but all things at once.
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I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
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I think I have lived enough in this country where I can say what I think is true and which is the voice of my conscience.
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On 'Glee,' we often tackle the tough topics that young people face - in fact, my recurring character, Wade 'Unique' Adams, is a transgender teenager who finds herself navigating a lot of the same problems many young people face around the globe.
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I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.
