Ken Robinson Quotes
Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
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Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
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True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.
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I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester - real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it - they're so interested.
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I started off as a 'Star Trek' fan, and to be able to work on the series was a great honor.
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.
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Just because no one has been fortunate enough to realize how wonderful you are, doesnt mean you shine any less.
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Stupid deer," I said, embarrassed about being startled. "We need a ladder." "I think they're easier to shoot with a rifle." "I'm not talking about the deer," I said, hitting Milo on the back of his shoulder. "We need a ladder to look over the wall." "Or a catapult," Milo said seriously.
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I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.
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It's not the worst thing to slap a woman now and then.
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Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did you do that?' But in the end, I can't regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.
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Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.
