Ken Robinson Quotes
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
Queen Latifah -
It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
Barbara Kruger -
Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
Ozwald Boateng -
I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
Idris Elba -
In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
Sally Field
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The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.
Parker Stevenson -
I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.
Sachin Tendulkar -
Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.
Karrine Steffans -
Unlike most youngsters who have school as their 'second home' where they meet and make friends, for me playtime has been at the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad. When I am not playing a tournament, my days are spent at the Academy with my coaches, physiotherapists and colleagues, who are like family. We laugh and have so much fun.
Saina Nehwal -
My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
Dan Gable
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Free love sounds great.
Laura Prepon -
I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.
K. Flay -
There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
Samantha Power -
My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.
Nancy Pelosi -
There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
Kaskade -
Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.
Florenz Ziegfeld
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I never wore full-on eyeliner in high school, but I wanted to.
Adam Lambert -
Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
Girls do what their mothers tell them. Ladies do what society tells them. Women make up their own minds.
Karen Kijewski -
Win or lose, I'll feel good about myself. That's what is important.
Mary Docter -
Every loss of life is terrible.
George H. W. Bush -
Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
Ken Robinson