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.
David Crystal
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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.
Calvin Harris
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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.
Yves Behar
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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.
Zach Cregger
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Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?
Palmer Luckey
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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
Walt Whitman
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To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
J. J. Abrams
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Everybody understands that you're supposed to say 'our employees are our most valuable asset' to the point where, even if it's really true, they're not going to really trust you until you've earned that - same with customers.
Gabe Newell
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It's like I'll sit down and put my hands on the piano or the guitar, and then I'll hear a sound or I'll feel a chord that will resonate and then I'll get something happening in my voice. My voice is like a car that I get into and drive but I don't know where I'm going. And I record everything. And often, I sort of get into a state, a creative state that is, where I'm just feeling around melodically, and playing things off the top of my head. Then I go back and listen to it and for the first time, hear what I just did. It's like Elvis has left the building while the thing is happening.
Beth Nielsen Chapman
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Cato said, 'I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.'
Plutarch
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Occasionally when a decision has been made by the ego, the subconscious will change it, because the decision is obviously such an unwise one.
Jane Roberts
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I don't normally do big movies. I'm new to this world. And I've always been afraid that jumping onto a big budget film, you would lose the relationships in favour of special effects.
Anne Hathaway
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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.
David Crystal
