David Crystal Quotes

I don't have any particular desire to see words making a comeback. They are of their era, after all, and that is their identity - they form part of the linguistic color of a period.

David Crystal

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I think about people like Jeff Bezos or Reed Hastings, and I really marvel at the stamina they've had to keep on trucking no matter what happens.

Jennifer Hyman

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I think there's a lot of learning process in figuring out what things you want to do and shouldn't do. Maturing in that way is something that comes with experience and time.

Matt Harvey

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People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.'

Ronda Rousey

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Sometimes I even feel funny to say I'm in a biracial marriage because people are like, 'Oh, he's Asian?' The subtext is, 'Who cares? You didn't marry a black person.'

Diane Farr

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Being an entrepreneur means the ability to think out of the box by putting away our fear of any risk, including financial.

Ciputra

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Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you.

Ansel Elgort

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People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?'

Philip Green

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Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded.

Susan George

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Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing.

Paul Stanley

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When I was studying, I was part of a children's entertainment company, and I'd have to dress up as a pirate or fairy and go to corporate parties and entertain the children. I will never, ever do that again. The worst was the demanding children - I've never been so exhausted doing a job as that one.

Shelley Conn

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I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.

Seann William Scott

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Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.

Richie Havens

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