David Crystal Quotes
Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
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Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
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People get so trapped by their technology now. Real life is so much better. I love talking with my mother and father. We really enjoy staying in and making a meal together. I'm very close with all four of my older sisters as well.
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I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.
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You should allow professors to become really outstanding academicians, recognised worldwide, and you should reward them.
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I'm very picky about what I'll do and the message the film has in it.
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I love being around my mom and my dad.
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The fact that there is a unity in everything demonstrates that they are the works and artefacts of a single being. The universe is like a rosebud swathed in a thousand veils of unity. Or it is a single macroanthropos dressed in unities to the number of Divine Names and universal Divine works.
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Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.
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I'm a travel enthusiast.
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Bob Hurwitz, the president of Nonesuch, the company that releases my records, is a mentor. He taught me how to assemble a script to record an album.
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It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.
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I am a daddy's girl at heart, even though I'm in my 30s.
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I always relate respectfully with blue-collar people.
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Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
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I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.
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Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.
