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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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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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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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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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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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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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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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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I usually eat anything I want. I'm not a big junk food guy, really.
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My granddad used to mind me at weekends, and if the game was on, and you wanted to get across the room, you had to crawl under the TV. So I've always been a Liverpool fan, and meeting Steven Gerrard was massive for me. He knew who I was before we'd even said hello!
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I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact.
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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.
