Randy Cross Quotes
Plummer is the Billy Graham of the NFL. He can make 70,000 people say 'Jesus' in unison.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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People asked me to change my name for [808s]...I think the fact that I can't sing that well is what makes "808s" so special.
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No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a formula... to an extent, there isn't a science to writing great songs, I suppose. For me, it's always about melody - it doesn't matter what genre of music you're writing, if there's a strong melodic thing somewhere, whether that's in a vocal or in a guitar part or a sample. Something that sticks in your brain, that seems to be something that works.
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I wouldn't want to be a mother that put blinders on and didn't see what was going on with my child. There can be huge consequences to such a thing.
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The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in.
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Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always have a sense of humour.
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Plummer is the Billy Graham of the NFL. He can make 70,000 people say 'Jesus' in unison.
