David Wallace Crowder (Crowder) Quotes
The people we talk about around water cooler at work or at school, they're all the people who are visible in our media whether it's a sports star or a movie star or a writer or a politician. They are people that have received media exposure and have become important to us in a way that's not realistic.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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I love football, football is my life.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it's footwork. I constantly work on it, and it's a never-ending process.
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I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.
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A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
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I got to make 'Trishakti' with Arshad Warsi, who was a newcomer at that time. The movie took three years to complete and became dated by the time it was released. The movie did not even get a proper release and bombed at the box office. It was a very bad patch of my life and a big disaster for my career.
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Just know what's inside your food.
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I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.
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If anybody seeks your advice, offer right and sincere advice.
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In this country over the last five years pay has doubled, whereas output has slightly fallen. That is totally different from the position with many of our competitors. Pay in those countries has gone up hand in hand with productivity. Consequently, they have the jobs and we have a larger proportion of the unemployment.
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I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.
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When I teach classes at the School of Visual Arts,, I'll ask the students, 'How many of you have been to a museum this year?' Nobody raises their hand and I go into a tirade. If you want to do something sharp and innovative, you have to know what went on before.
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The 'Stephanie Plums' are very much Jersey books. So you can't get away from attitude and objectionable language.
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I can't think of anything that I turned down that became big and successful.
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The people we talk about around water cooler at work or at school, they're all the people who are visible in our media whether it's a sports star or a movie star or a writer or a politician. They are people that have received media exposure and have become important to us in a way that's not realistic.
