David Crystal Quotes
It doesn't take a language long to disappear once the spirit to continue with it leaves its community. In fact, the speed of the decline has been one of the main findings of recent linguistic research.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
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One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.
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South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
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In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
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If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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Only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.
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I don't come to Toronto often, so when I'm there it's always special and rare which I think makes it very exciting for my fans.
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If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.
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Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space.
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I hope someday to see California literature become a part of mainstream American literature, and I hope to be part of that process.
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It doesn't take a language long to disappear once the spirit to continue with it leaves its community. In fact, the speed of the decline has been one of the main findings of recent linguistic research.
