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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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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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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Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
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The system is not really particularly amenable to filmmakers who write and direct their own work. It's much more about the studio already having a property that has a marketable concept and then hiring the director on board.
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The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.
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Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.
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Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.
