Ken Robinson Quotes
Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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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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I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
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The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.
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I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.
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If we are all endowed by our creator with the right to pursue happiness, that has to apply to the poorest neighborhoods in the poorest counties, and I am prepared to find something that works, that breaks us out of the cycles we have now to find a way for poor children to work and earn honest money.
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Teachers spend most of their daytime hours with children. Teachers at every level, coaches, counselors, cafeteria workers and yes, custodians, spend their hours trying to make children's lives different, if not always better.
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Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.
