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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I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.
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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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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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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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People are always asking me what my favorite food is. I say, 'Food that tells me where I am.'
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Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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It's horrible to get a cameraphone shoved in your face every time you walk out the door.
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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.
