Ken Robinson Quotes
Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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I like being unconventional.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
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I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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Glee's good because it tackles the issues by embracing what's different, and telling people, 'That's what makes you special' - I think that's the underlying thing.
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It's a very typical UFO sighting. Carter said it changed color and, in the physical report, described it as being about the size of the moon. And he saw it with about twenty-five other people.
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Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
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Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.
