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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There is nothing I hate more than meeting someone who has forgotten the art of conversing.
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Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right.
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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren’t still there, he’s no longer a political leader.
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I'm not sure if a writer should talk about themes. Themes arrive out of the deeper structure and concerns, but to me, the main thing is getting it down right, writing about specific characters in specific predicaments, and finding a way to be true to the story itself, not only in the first burst of draft but in the revision, too.
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I was so lucky to have parents who supported me, 100%, with whatever I was doing, both financially and emotionally. Having that they made my life so much easier. Instead of becoming a bartender and trying to survive while trying to pursue your dreams, I didn't have to worry about that aspect. I could just pursue my dreams.
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Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.
