Ken Robinson Quotes
Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.
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There is always pressure in football.
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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It's different from Washington in that in the legislature, you have to go home and have a job and actually make a living on your own. That gives you a different perspective.
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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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Immigration is the most explosive issue I've seen in my political career.
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All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
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There are some people who watch NASCAR for the highly skilled driving - but most people watch it for the crashes.
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Dig beneath your feet, there you will find a spring. The place where you are now is crucial. Never try to avoid that which you must do.
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Boxing is not for killing.
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Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.
