David Crystal Quotes
Everybody wants to say who they are and where they're from. And the easiest and cheapest and most universal way of doing that is through their accent.
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I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.
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The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.
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It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.
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Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?
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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
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To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
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Find something that makes you happy and go for it.
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You need to know when to surrender the album.
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Where there is love there is life.
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People wanted Bitcoin to live so much, they basically willed it back into existence. That showed me how passionate this community was about it.
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I want to make my own movie.
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Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.
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The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.
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I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.
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I think it's nice to work and then have success.
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To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.
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I think we're glazing eyes all across America.
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The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
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He was really instrumental in getting this event started.
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The China of the 1970s was a communist dictatorship. The China of the twenty-first century is a one-party state without a firm ideological foundation, more similar to Mexico under the PRI than Russia under Stalin. But the measurement of the political and the economic evolution has not yet been completed, and is one of the weak points of the system.
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Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.
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I think I'm pretty down to earth.
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Everybody wants to say who they are and where they're from. And the easiest and cheapest and most universal way of doing that is through their accent.
