Ken Robinson Quotes
There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.
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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
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USC has really developed my love for the cinema.
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I'm not tech savvy at all.
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There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.
