Bill Crawford Quotes
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.
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The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.
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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?
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When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.
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Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.
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The reality is that we know that this universe, that our galaxy, has billions of stars. We know that stars have planets. So the likelihood that there is life somewhere else to me is just absolutely there.
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I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.
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Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
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To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.
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You cannot sleep with the enemy and be successful...Every cord that binds you to failure, every cord that binds you to fear, you gotta cut it!
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The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.
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The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.
