Bill Crawford Quotes
In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.
Bill Crawford
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I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
Mandy Patinkin
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What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
Euripides
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You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.
Jane Austen
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In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.
Steve Albini
Big Black
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I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The hour that burst the spirit's sleep.
Saul Bellow
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It is always brave to insist on undergoing transformations that feel necessary and right even when there are so many obstructions to doing so, including people and institutions who seek to pathologize or criminalize such important acts of self-definition. I know that for some feels less brave than necessary, but we all have to defend those necessities that allow us to live and breathe in the way that feels right to us. Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs – it is also not always what a trans person needs.
Judith Butler
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For me, the character I play is most important.
Radha Ravi
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What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties.
William Hepworth Thompson
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I bring the experiences of women. As a daughter, as a mother, as a wife, as a sister. That is who I am. Those experiences are part of me. And it is part of our American journey that we have moved through so much of what used to hold people back because of gender, because of race.
Hillary Clinton
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Irony, which in Socrates’ case consists of saying “too little,” functions for him just as hyperbole, which is saying “too much,” functions for Nietzsche.
Alexander Nehamas
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What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner.
Eileen Wilks
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I realize that life isn't perfect - it can't be perfect. I can drive myself nuts trying to make it perfect, or I can just have a lot of fun with the kids.
Kate Gosselin
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Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true - you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both! The America I know doesn't make excuses.
Mia Love
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We've got a second amendment right. I think some people forget that.
Richard Shelby
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It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out.
Lauryn Hill
Fugees
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In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.
Bill Crawford
