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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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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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 want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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I want to live fast and die young.
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It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.
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I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.
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Those are the ladies sitting in church. And in the same way that they might feel a joy and release on Sunday, they are still going to work on Monday. And that's who I was listening to during this process. And if at the end of my presidency they feel like I did a pretty good job, then I'll feel pretty good.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.
