David Crystal Quotes
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him.
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It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.
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I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
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Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.
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You want your partner to objectify you.
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I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.
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I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
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In the modern era, Jewish sovereignty over the land of our ancestors is a relatively short phenomenon. From the time of the successful Maccabean revolt to the Roman annexation in 63 BC constitutes about 100 years of Jewish rule. Combined with Israel's independence in 1948, this is about 160 years of effective sovereignty.
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I always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story played out on the big screen will resonate for individuals in the audience in a way that gives them comfort.
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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I get my light eyes from my mother.
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I want to be open to the kids who only speak Spanish, the kids who speak only Spanglish, and the kids who don't even speak Spanish at all.
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You may all go to pot.
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Its berries are red as a maiden's lip,Its leaves are of changeless green ;And any thing changeless now, I wis,Is somewhat rare to be seen.The holly, which fall and frost has borne,The holly's the wreath for a Christmas morn.
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I imitatea memory of beliefthat I do not own.
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Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed.
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The young people I know judge leaders by their deeds and abhor hypocrisy. Inconsistency and point-scoring do not win respect. It's not easy to be engaged in political debate when it is reduced to performers trying to outdo each other. Actions from leaders must mirror the values they claim to espouse.
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I want to - on behalf of myself, and I think on behalf of a majority of the American people, say that, you know, our word is good.
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No human being who wants to read and own a book should ever have to go on a bended knee to get it.
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I sometimes feel that a pattern is almost a fashion statement in itself.
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The Internet offers endangered languages a chance to have a public voice in a way that would not have been possible before.
