David Wallace Crowder (Crowder) Quotes
Language is in the way. Music's in the way. Songs are in the way. Stuff's in the way. That's just our state here. And to acknowledge that we're broken and to even ... create tradition that helps us embrace that, and to understand that, I think is a very healthy, good thing.
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
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In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
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I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.
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I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial.
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I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.'
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Americans do not have a good track record when it comes to preparing for disasters, unless they see a clear possibility of personally being in harms way.
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I just want to continue the way I am going.
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All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.
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On a certain level, I don't think there is an answer to what the American way is, because it is constantly being re-defined. It's also been exploited and capitalized upon and politicized by one side or the other to the point that a certain degree of cynicism has attached itself to that term.
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I never wanted to take the easy way, and I was always willing to hustle.
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I think the way we react to things is a big indicator of our character and what type of person we are.
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My mum wanted me to go to university.
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I wish I could say I was one of those people who loves working out, but I don't; it's just not that fun. But I make an effort to work out aggressively three times a week.
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We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.
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You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you're 25. To me it's embarrassing.
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He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in Reality be digging a pit.
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Language is in the way. Music's in the way. Songs are in the way. Stuff's in the way. That's just our state here. And to acknowledge that we're broken and to even ... create tradition that helps us embrace that, and to understand that, I think is a very healthy, good thing.
