Bill Crawford Quotes
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
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What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.
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Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.
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Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down.
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My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.
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My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.
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When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal.
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My favorite thing to do in a new city is find new fast food. I seek it out. I'll tweet and ask people what their favorite local place is, and if I get four or five with the same answer, then I'll check it out.
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When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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Weak and kindly people are often very treacherous. And if they’ve got a grudge against life it saps the little moral strength that they may posses.
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I am a bad planner, and my friends would vouch for it.
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I like to fly close to the edge. I like to play with fire.
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Most of the time, I grill over high heat. I like things to move fast. I like the sound and smell of a very hot fire. I gravitate towards dishes that you can get on and off the grill as quickly as possible. After a while, you'll know without thinking about it how hot the fire is.
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Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
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People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.
