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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I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.
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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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I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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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 just really want to make albums - and however I can, I will.
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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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It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.
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The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and it's only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.
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It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really.
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I saw an amazing film when I was 16 called 'Slam'. It's about a spoken-word poet. Saul Williams is in it.
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It's not trickle down economics. The problem that the president has is that he's rudderless on the economy. I mean, he doesn't quite know what to do. It's a wake-up on Monday and try to figure it out. It takes time to turn a supertanker, so you need to know where you need to go.
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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.
