David Crystal Quotes
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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I don't really yell at people.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
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I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.
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Even though I'll do finger warm-ups that go up and down the neck to build up my chops and dexterity, I never, ever sit around and practice the actual licks I'm gonna play live. If you do, then you'll be all worried about the complexity of getting the fingering right and everything else about it, as opposed to the feel.
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My family wasn't in the music business, but they loved music.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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Islam neither requires one to be practising, nor to dress in one way or another. So imposing the veil on a woman is contrary to the principles of Islam. … Unfortunately, after all the suspicion weighing on Islam, many people have begun to consider the veil as a political problem, but this is not the case … Wearing the veil is a free personal choice.
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When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.
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Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.