Bill Crawford Quotes

Nothing is meaningless it's how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.

Bill Crawford

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• I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Like
  • Hip Hop

• Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Time
  • Different
  • You

• One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Writing
  • Future
  • Energy

• Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • She
  • America
  • Same

• Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.

  

  Owen Chamberlain
  • Generation
  • Gone
  • Shoulders

• I pick the wrong kinds of guys, but they're so hot.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Wrong
  • Guys
  • Hot

• Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Science
  • Profession
  • Ethical

• When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Long
  • End
  • Patience

• I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • School
  • Art

• If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Discipline
  • Student

• To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Peace
  • Build
  • Core

• Yeah, I can understand that. All the splendor of the Taj Mahal, without the inconvenience and expense of traveling to India.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks

• I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.

  

  Barack Obama
  • House
  • Wish
  • Blessed

• Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Faith

• Just remember - if you are really and truly determined to work with animals, somehow, either now or later, you will find a way to do it. But you have to want it desperately, work hard, take advantage of an opportunity - and never give up.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Up
  • Work
  • Remember

• Nine times out of 10 when people do a tribute album or tribute songs for somebody, it's what I call 'white boys playing reggae'. They know they can't, we know they can't, so they sing like they can't and play like they can't. They gently make fun of the idiom or sing in a false accent.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • People
  • Fun

• Different cultures produce a different 'cool.' And your perception of 'cool' changes depending on where you are.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Different
  • Cool
  • Perception

• It's funny that a lot of the fans of 'Angel' have come over and hung out with me on 'Leverage.' I was so fortunate to have been on that show. It created one of the best fan groups ever. I just have the best fans in the world.

  

  Christian Kane
  • World
  • Funny
  • Angel

• Less money for public media means less access to the arts.

  

  Nellie McKay
  • Money

• 'I did used to like trampolining, but I’m probably past it, I think. You need to have a really strong pelvic floor to be good at trampolining, and I’ve had three children.'

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Good
  • Children
  • Past

• I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for the music of language, for what we call poetry, for the sound effects and the way that the sound can produce sensual feeling at odds with or consonant with the content of the work. Your work is also gorgeous writing. It's very unfortunate when you open a novel that everybody's loving and it's just, you know, an excruciatingly bad sentence.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Work
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where the profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Men
  • Country
  • Money

• Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent - what a rare relief.

  

  Benjamin Moser
  • Friend
  • Relief
  • Translation

• Nothing is meaningless it's how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Experience
  • Future
  • Past