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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Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend.
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The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.
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There used to be that you only had four or five critics that you would look to for intelligent conversation, but now there are millions of people who can just press 'send,' and everyone's got an opinion even if no one cares what they say. It makes things a little bit tougher.
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The best thing anybody ever told me about acting - and I think it's probably true for life, generally - is listen. You've really got to watch, and you've really got to listen. Not see and hear.
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I would stay on, but 'General Hospital' honestly doesn't seem to want that relationship with this character at the moment. They want little short doses during sweeps periods.
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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.
