Ken Robinson Quotes
Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.
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Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
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It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
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I've played a lot of younger, more coming-of-age roles as well as roles that aren't such an imposing physical presence.
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I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.
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It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down.
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Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever.
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You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments dismal; it's a zero sum game, and its guarantor of value, its marker is that you pretend you play it solo, preserving the myth that you alone are the wellspring of your creativity.
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Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.
