Carl Honore Quotes
Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.Carl Honore
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
Zoe Kravitz -
What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
Gary Hamel -
I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
Zadie Smith -
Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
Campbell Scott -
We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
Patrick Leahy -
It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
Felix Baumgartner -
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson -
I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.
Ed Bradley -
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
Zach LaVine -
With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
Taya Kyle
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
Harry Caray -
You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
Odette Annable -
We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
Ingvar Kamprad -
I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
Waris Ahluwalia
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You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
Ken Kesey -
Liberace - or Lee, as us friends called him - was great. He was gay, you know.
Debbie Reynolds -
In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.
Brian K. Vaughan -
Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
Taylor Hackford -
Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.
Valmiki -
Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
Carl Honore