David Crystal Quotes
The subject matter ranges from subtle forms of intellectual sarcasm and humor to the crudest possible attacks on a person's courage, sexual prowess, or relatives. At one level, attacks may be subtle and indirect, involving allusion and figurative speech; at another, there may be explicit taunts, boasts, name calling, and jokes at the other's expense.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
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In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.
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I've watched Urkel since I was a little kid.
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I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.
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What I always wanted to be was a magician... My real upbringing when I was a teenager was doing magic shows, all over the state, with my father and brothers. Doing magic, you not only have to be able to do a trick, you have to have a little story line to go with it. And writing is essentially a trick.
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I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.
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We think craft is important, and the irony has always been that horror may be disregarded by critics, but often they are the best-made movies you're going to find in terms of craft. You can't scare people if they see the seams.
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When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.
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Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
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The subject matter ranges from subtle forms of intellectual sarcasm and humor to the crudest possible attacks on a person's courage, sexual prowess, or relatives. At one level, attacks may be subtle and indirect, involving allusion and figurative speech; at another, there may be explicit taunts, boasts, name calling, and jokes at the other's expense.
