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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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Even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it myself, if you know what I mean.
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From age six to 12, I lived in seven different countries, moving from one refugee camp to another, hoping we would be wanted.
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Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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If I settle a case out of court, it's because I love the person.
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"Straight Edge" was a song about my life. There was no structure, no premise as if I was forming a club. There were no tenets. I mean I wrote a song called "Straight Edge," I'll take that, but the song was about my life the way I wanted to live it.
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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.
