Carl Honore Quotes
Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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There's the wonder of being able to do research from your own living room, of course. I do find that my biggest research issue, though, is how to frame my questions.
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I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.
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After the first album, I spent a lot of time being like, 'I'm not really a singer.' That kind of mentality doesn't help.
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Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.
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Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.
