Bill Crawford Quotes
Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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What's amazing is that the Web enables you to build a kind of channel that wouldn't have made sense for cable, in the same way cable enabled you to build content that wouldn't have made sense for broadcast. You couldn't have done CNN with the broadcast networks; you couldn't have done MTV with the broadcast networks.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
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It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.
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Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic.
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For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place.
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I don't take vacations.
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To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
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Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. The world doesn’t need any more gray. On the other hand, we can’t get enough color. Mediocrity is nobody’s goal and perfection shouldn’t be either. We’ll never be perfect. But remember these three P’s: Passion + Persistence = Possibility.
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I look back at my childhood, and the films that I remember the most are things like 'Mary Poppins,' 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,' 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,' 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'
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I love the MLB app, because I'm a pretty obsessed baseball fan.
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The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.
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A ghost from her past, part of a world to which she no longer belonged but had never stopped missing.
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Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.
