David Crystal Quotes
It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to be sorted out, and it proved to be a major project.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
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You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
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Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.
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The causes of continuity are a priori within the scope of the observer, but the causes of change in time are not. It is better not to attempt giving an exact account at this point, but to restrict discussion to the shifting of relationships in general. Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law.
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I didn't have many friends; I was kind of bullied at school.
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I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
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That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.
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It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to be sorted out, and it proved to be a major project.
