David Crystal Quotes
Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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I think people make a really big deal that I'm this big character-issue guy, and I've got red flags. I'm not.
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I do not know how I shall develop, but for the present, I am continuing to work within ordinary, generally known terrain, different only because of a deep substratum, which leads those who are receptive to sense the finer regions.
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The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness.
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I was told when I was little I couldn't have an opinion because you want everyone to buy your record and like you.
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There is no life without challenge or adversity. So we have to decide whether to treat it as a friend or a foe.
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Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
