David Wallace Crowder (Crowder) Quotes
To follow Jesus doesn't remove us from the stuff of life. It is not resolution. It is tension and journey.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
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I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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It's very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesn't make sense!
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Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.
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Every once in a while, we'd ask my dad if we could get a ride in one of these planes. And, he did take us to the flying club and get us a ride in the Pushpak and a glider that the flying club had.
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An excess of boringness does not make a thing interesting except in the driest academic sense. A place is not boring if you have to look really hard for something which is interesting. If there is absolutely nothing interesting about any particular place, then that is a perfectly interesting and quintessentially un-boring place.
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A new species is arising on the planet. It is arising now, and you are it!
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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man,And broke the die, in molding Sheridan.
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I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision.
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My book sales make 'real writers' possible.
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If you look at Buster Keaton or Douglas Fairbanks movies, what still amazes you today is their physical ability. The only special effects that never grow old are what you can do with the human body.
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The companies that choose to list on Nasdaq are among the most innovative, risk-taking businesses in the world, and they are proof to us all that prudent risk-taking drives our economy forward.
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Tiny Tim? Anyone could sing like that. It's atrocious. It's hideous, really.
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I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.
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Just don't hold back. Don't be afraid to make mistakes and stuff.
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Everyday - it's a gettin' closer,Goin' faster than a roller coaster.Love like yours will surely come my wayA hey - a hey hey.
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A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. (from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)
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I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.
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To follow Jesus doesn't remove us from the stuff of life. It is not resolution. It is tension and journey.
