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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Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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I think if you don't enjoy something, it's not sustainable.
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We were doing press for this movie that my friends and I made for $5,000 called 'Brothers Justice,' that I also wrote and directed. And during the press of that, people kept saying, 'What's next, what's next?' And my best friend Nate and I - Nate produced it - we kept saying, 'Oh, we're gonna do a car-chase movie next.'
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I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.
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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.
