Ken Robinson Quotes
Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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The press in India, I believe, is more free, and happily so, than perhaps media anywhere in the world. Right? Which is a good thing.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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I couldn't speak any English when I first left Russia, and Intimissimi taught me everything. The team was like a family to me - they showed me how to model and how to stay in shape. They really believed in me.
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I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
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I think a lot more people are starting to understand the power of YouTube.
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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
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I buy when other people are selling.
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Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
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My wrists, which are tattooed with my daughters' names, are always occupied by a watch.
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The stories in 'Parenthood' are so much the stories of our lives. And the people who have worked on the show feel very connected to these characters.
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I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.
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Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.
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As exercise is necessary to the development of physical muscle, so development of the moral nature is accomplished through temptation. The soul being given choice, may exercise it in whatever direction it chooses, for it learns just as well by its mistakes as by right action in the first place, perhaps even better.
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Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.
