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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Coming up closeEverything sounds like welcome home.Come home and oh, by the way,Don't you know that I could make a dream that's barely half-awake come true?I wanted to say - but anything I could have said I felt somehow that you already knew.
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The swarm of thoughts, the swarm of dreams Of inaccessible Utopia. A mountainous music always seemed To be falling and to be passing away.
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A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries.
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The best money I made was panhandling.
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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.
