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David Crystal Quotes

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: english
Birth: July 6, 1941

Topics

Strength People Thinking Argument

I don't run any of my companies. I always partner with somebody who wants to operate.

Partner Run Always Somebody Who Any

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.

Time Money Simple Learn You Hard

Maybe with your emotions and your feelings, someone else can say it in a different way than you would, which brings new life to the way you might sing it.

Life Someone New Life You Emotions

Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.

Wisdom Railroad Automobile Telephone

I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico.

Oil Never Mexico Seen Large Gulf

Higher capital requirements increase bank costs, and at least some of those costs will be passed along to bank customers and shareholders. But in the longer term, stronger prudential requirements for large banking firms will produce more sustainable credit availability and economic growth.

Growth Credit Stronger Will More

I've never understood why anyone would want to join the army, but that's irrelevant. The fact of the matter is that, as long as we go on voting in governments who are prepared to take troops into an illegal war, that army is a necessity.

War Voting Army Long Go Want

King had come to Memphis to lend his moral authority to the struggle of striking municipal sanitation workers who were overwhelmingly African-American. They earned poverty wages, endured degrading working conditions, and faced brutal beatings when they tried to organize.

Struggle King Poverty Moral Workers

We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.

Help DNA Our Protagonist Identifying

Laos is a country where everything is eaten. When I came back, I would find myself chopping parsley and thinking: 'Why am I throwing these stems away? They're perfectly edible.'

Myself Thinking Back Find Country

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

Time Guitar Playing Started Anybody

I've got a wide variety of interests.

Variety Got Interests Wide

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