Carl Honore Quotes
I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.
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I think movie and television companies are in the business of making money, and if you have a franchise, eventually you'll want to exploit that franchise and revisit it. So I assume at some point someone will do another story in the 'Lost' world.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
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I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the setting elements and world-building when I revise.
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Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.
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I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
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When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.
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This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.
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Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world.
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The great western error about the Taliban is to assume homogeneity.
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It's a sad state when more people retweet than buy records.
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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.
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Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
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I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm funny; I'll go on trips with them - I'll do all sorts of stuff.' But the momming? I'm not made for that. I have a really good mom; I know what she put into it.
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I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.
