David Crystal Quotes
Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
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The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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With every little bit of change we make in our lives, we can maximize that small change simply by asking ourselves: 'What's next? What can I do now? What additional responsibility can I take on?'
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We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.
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Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.
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It was extremely difficult to suppress my emotions, because my character in' A Girl at My Door' goes through so many infuriating situations. It was a lonely process having to portray someone that acts tough but is deeply hurting inside and is unable to express that.
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The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.
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My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet - especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult.
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men talk of money and industry of hard times and recoveries of finance and economics but the ants wait and the scorpions wait for while men talk they are making deserts all the time getting the world ready for the conquering ant drought and erosion and desert because men cannot learn
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Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.
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Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.
