David Crystal Quotes
The Internet has given us 10 or 15 new styles of communication: long messages like blogging, and then short messages like texting and tweeting. I see it all as part of an expanding array of linguistic possibilities.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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I like to do Pilates.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
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The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.
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Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.
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Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it's also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of money off low-income families and directly contribute to their poverty.
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To ISIS and others: We will defeat you.
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There is this incredible, indelible community that has sprung up around the show, a community that gathers in homes and clubs, from Los Angeles to Topeka, Kansas and around the world. A community that, in some places, meets quietly in a lesbian bar that doesn’t even exist depending on whom you ask.
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What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.
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Long-, medium- and short-grain rices differ in the amount and type of starch they have.
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The Internet has given us 10 or 15 new styles of communication: long messages like blogging, and then short messages like texting and tweeting. I see it all as part of an expanding array of linguistic possibilities.
