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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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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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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My music was my life, and it played a large part in my inability to sustain relationships.
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We knew we could put the company on the right side of history by decisive transformative action and by redefining our purpose to improving people's lives through innovation.
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As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
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I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
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Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we give our children a future of more or a future of less - this, too, is a choice.
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Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
