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.
Samora Machel
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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.
Lance Burton
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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.
Om Puri
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The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
Harrison Ford
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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.
Tavi Gevinson
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
Barney Frank
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Isaac Asimov
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I'm not really a self-promoter-type person.
Larry Wilmore
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I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.
Ada Lovelace
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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.
Karl Marx
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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.
Laura Ingraham
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Getting to fight at the AT&T Stadium is a huge privilege for me and my career.
Canelo Alvarez
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You always gotta do what you like. If it connects, it's a miracle, but it happened with Die Antwoord.
Yolandi Visser
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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.
Sabrina Carpenter
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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.
Tawakkol Karman
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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.
Elbert Hubbard
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And she did not miss his presence so much as his voice on the phone. Even being lied to constantly, though hardly like love, was sustained attention; he must care about her to fabricate so elaborately and over such a long stretch of time. His deceit was a form of tribute to the importance of their marriage.
Ian Mcewan
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Really, then, our problem is not weakness, but independence! And in covenant, you die to independent living.
Kay Arthur
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Without execution, 'vision' is just another word for hallucination.
Mark V. Hurd
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I held down as many jobs as I could find, from being a waiter to working at a yoga studio and as a ticket-taker at a small theater company - anything that would allow me to go out and do auditions.
John Krasinski
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I lived on the north side of Detroit. Right down the street from me there was a young man by the name of Smokey Robinson. I was very proud to live down the street from him because he was our only celebrity in town. He was singing with the Miracles.
Diana Ross
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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.
David Crystal