Bill Crawford Quotes
Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
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Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and a lack of tools. This is what makes traditional philanthropy so daunting. You could build a thousand new hospitals in some parts of the world and barely make a difference.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.
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The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.
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I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the unsexy parts of the business that you're faced with, like getting money. It's a really great thing to do. You feel like you're really an artist when you're doing that and you're in a company of artists.
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The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.
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As an artist, you can't expect a producer to just bring you a record. If you walk in and say, 'I want Kanye West's 'Power,' it just doesn't work that way.
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Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.
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In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.
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Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.
