Dennis Crowley Quotes
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This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
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My spirit is as strong as ever. I'm still fighting to make the world a safer place, and you can, too.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take responsibility?'
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I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.
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The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.
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I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
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I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.
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Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: 'Jacquet,' he'd say, 'knock off that tempo.' A lot of jazz musicians didn't prefer to play for dancers, which was their loss, really. But good jazz has always had that dance feel.
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My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.
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The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is written, and to stand by it with all my heart.
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The most satisfying thrillers send ordinary people into battle against the forces of evil - otherwise known as greed, ego, rage, fear and laziness - and bring them out bloodied but whole.
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Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.
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I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
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No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.
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It's different being a director. I suppose, especially if it's a story you've written and you feel compelled to tell, in some ways it's a lot easier than acting because you're orchestrating the piece. As an actor, sometimes you're trying to second-guess what people want.
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Nothing is as sad as seeing a person who used to have power have none.
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To put the matter in Aristotelian terminology, visual impressions are prior in the order of being to concepts pertaining to physical color, whereas the latter are prior in the order of knowing to concepts pertaining to visual impressions.
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That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
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The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
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When I first started going out to lesbian clubs, I felt a very binary recreation of hetero culture. There are butches and femmes, and I felt like I was neither of those things. I'm in a turtleneck and jeans and just learning to be comfortable in that space. I realized I don't have to be a certain way.
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My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever.
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I used to snowboard 30 days a year. Now it's down to eight.
