Ken Robinson Quotes
I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.
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It's those damn critics again.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
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No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.
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I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
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Concerning Poland, I can only say that the peoples of Central Europe and Hungary are a community in fate, to the death. Many of us would spill our blood for Poland any time. And vice versa: in an emergency, many Polish people would give his life to protect Hungarians. This has happened more than once over the course of history.
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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.
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The key to genuine happiness is in our hands. To think this way is to discover the essential values of kindness, brotherly love and altruism. The more clearly we see the benefits of these values, the more we will seek to reject anything that opposes them; in this way we will be able to bring about inner transformation.
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I was a soul singer first and I'd write love songs. I find with soul music it's really hard to write about anything else. But I was 15 at the time when I was doing that and, to be honest, I'd never experienced love, so the words were kind of meaningless. With hip-hop music, it allowed me to talk about political and social things but also to tell stories.
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I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.
