Bill Crawford Quotes
To influence others to change, you must be able to frame that change in terms of the future, and in a way that has value to all concerned.
Quotes to Explore
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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Being in 'Doctor Who' has been so amazing. I don't think I will ever have a job quite so fun ever again. I feel sad because I am going to leave, but with any story, it has to come to an end.
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I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
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Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.
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And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.
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Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.
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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
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I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.
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Like it or not the American people support the term 'background check,' they support the concept of it even though they know it won't work to keep guns out of the hands of criminals they figure 'well if criminals aren't supposed to have guns what's the big deal about a background check.
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On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol.
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I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.
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There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.
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To influence others to change, you must be able to frame that change in terms of the future, and in a way that has value to all concerned.
