Ken Robinson Quotes
Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.
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I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
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It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.
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Certain struggles never end.
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I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.
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O Mary, go and call the cattle home,And call the cattle home,And call the cattle homeAcross the sands of Dee;The western wind was wild and dank with foam,And all alone went she.
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True love can fear no one.
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Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.
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As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.
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People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
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Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.
