Carl Honore Quotes
We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?
Quotes to Explore
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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.
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Each project, I can almost feel like I'm like a different person.
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Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.
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When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations.
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The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness.
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We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?
