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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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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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
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I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn't want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did.
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If you've had a bad experience with an agent, you have to move past it. You are bound to want a player at some stage who is represented by this guy and you will have to try to work around the personality of the agent. You tend to work out what makes them tick, what they respond to. You have to have tactical plans to get a deal over the line.
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I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.
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The first album was literally the first 12 songs I've ever written.
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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.
