David Crystal Quotes
Every usage, no matter how bizarre or nonstandard, fascinates me, as it tells me something about the way language is evolving.
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the name Biggie Smalls, but I really wasn't that much into hip-hop at the time, so I really didn't know that was him. He said he didn't even know I was an artist on 'Bad Boy.'
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I'm not really a self-promoter-type person.
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I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.
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In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
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The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.
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Getting to fight at the AT&T Stadium is a huge privilege for me and my career.
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You always gotta do what you like. If it connects, it's a miracle, but it happened with Die Antwoord.
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There's so many things that I've gone through that I want to share because there's other teenagers that are going through the same things or will go through the same things.
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For the first time people in the south stopped calling for separation, raised the national flag and demanded an end to the regime. It's been truly historic. The country is united in its aim to rid itself of the regime through public vigils and rallies, civil disobedience and slogans instead of tear gas and bullets.
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Do not dump your woes upon people - keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
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The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be his neighbor, there is an unsettled wilderness between him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, farther still, between him and it.
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Create a story of which you will be proud.
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I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
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What we do is ridiculous! I think that even when what I'm doing is serious, even when I'm not turning into a werewolf. It's a silly thing to do, isn't it? It's what you do in the playground when you're kids - but actors just never stop doing it.
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Every usage, no matter how bizarre or nonstandard, fascinates me, as it tells me something about the way language is evolving.
