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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The RNC had been incredibly supportive of my efforts in 2014... I couldn't have won without them.
Cory Gardner
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I love the fact that people don't see the ukulele as a serious instrument. A lot of people see it as more of a toy, and I love that because it just proves that people aren't intimidated by the instrument. They aren't afraid to pick it up.
Jake Shimabukuro
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Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.
Dan DeCarlo
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When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps.
David Baker
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The money for my movies mostly come from talented and generous friends willing to work for almost nothing. As a producer, my job is to get as many people to give me things for free as I could. And most people are kind, and they know how hard this kind of thing is, so they are willing to help how they can, and reduce their fees how they can.
Amber Sealey
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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
