David Crystal Quotes
The one thing about internet language, people join it, and what quickly evolves is an 'internet dialect,' as it were.
David Crystal
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As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
Kaskade
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
Larry Wilcox
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
Ian Williams
Battles
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
Jack McBrayer
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
Aaron Douglas
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
Nancy Gibbs
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In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.
David Friedman
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The first time I heard Tom Waits, it was like everything just flipped. It was just this fascination with him. My cousin showed me 'Small Change,' and I just couldn't get over that this was a white guy singing.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne
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I'm great at working with people and collaborating. And if my biggest gift of all is that I'm really good at pulling things from people and helping them become better at what they're doing, I'm here, as I believe all of us are, to be of service.
Linda Perry
4 Non Blondes
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When you have four people writing lyrics instead of one person, the lyrics are going to be a little more broad.
Brendon Urie
Panic! at the Disco
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I never worry about fat people worrying about thin people, because slender people bury the dead.
Eileen Ford
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The one thing about internet language, people join it, and what quickly evolves is an 'internet dialect,' as it were.
David Crystal