Chris Boardman Quotes
By now, we have learnt that game-changing ideas do not come from experts, they come from people who haven't got a clue and ask stupid questions.Chris Boardman
Quotes to Explore
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I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.
Laura Dern -
People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.
Camilla Lackberg -
I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
Ward Churchill -
People hate searching.
Sam Altman -
It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
Nat King Cole -
Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
M. Night Shyamalan
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I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in.
Patricia Richardson -
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.
Karen Armstrong -
There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge.
Walter Murch -
Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.
Adam Driver -
Most of my characters are an amalgamation of people that I've met, my family, or myself. Being a writer, you can draw only from what you know. I am lucky to have really rich and interesting people in my family for, you know, interesting family nights and great characters.
Lake Bell -
Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
Edmund White
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To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.
Nancy Friday -
Hopefully it will be possible to get all our other albums in American shops one day so if people are interested they can hear it but I'm hoping that people are going to be interested in what we are going to do, not just what we've done.
Ville Valo HIM -
A couple of taxi drivers have asked me if we can survive financially as an independent nation. I say, how come we are more stupid than Denmark or Finland or Sweden? They've all got the same amount of people. Are we all going to down tools? Is everybody in Scotland going to stop working?
Eddi Reader -
Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.
F. Sionil Jose -
It's important for youth, black youths particularly, to be able to fill in the blanks of themselves so they can know completely who they are, but also all the country to understand what this means: what the civil rights movement does to us as people. It is part of the journey that we must be on in order to become fully evolved human beings.
Forest Whitaker -
Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.
Wayne McGregor
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Above all else never let people know how physically unattractive they actually are. Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful.
John Lennon The Beatles -
Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.
Venus Williams -
My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.
Zadie Smith -
Building one garden in L.A. - it might be a nice gesture - but it won't make a difference. We have to start to change the culture of the community.
Kimbal Musk -
By now, we have learnt that game-changing ideas do not come from experts, they come from people who haven't got a clue and ask stupid questions.
Chris Boardman