Michael Leunig Quotes

An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be.

Michael Leunig

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LifeEducationPeopleStupidSuits

It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect.

Michael Hirst

CharacterNot PerfectBetterPerfect

There were no Asian lads boxing when I started.

Amir Khan

BoxingAsianStartedWereLads

I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.

Rita Dove

TravelWorldThinkYouWritePoem

We have to think about the state of women in a more holistic way going forward. We can't be segregated by class and race as we have been. Because even the women at the top can do something about violence against women, right?

Chirlane McCray

WomenForwardThinkViolenceWay

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.

Brian Eno

SpeechNewOutStuffTechnique

Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.

Annie Besant

ExperienceIntelligenceManCreative

The exceptional feature of education programmes in Punjab is that students of all federating units have their due share in them.

Shehbaz Sharif

EducationStudentsShareExceptional

Everything that I've done in my life was to lead me to my work with the animals.

Tippi Hedren

LifeWorkMeMy LifeDoneAnimals

It's funny, I'm very analytical in my real life, but in terms of my films, I try to not analyze them at all and let things just go into them and let them be what they are. I mean, people ask me to this day what 'The Squid and the Whale' stood for, and I have no idea except that it's an exhibit in the Natural History Museum.

Noah Baumbach

LifeFunnyHistoryDayPeopleMe

And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself.

Murray Walker

MyselfMeNowInterruptExcuse

If you blink, you will miss me, but I am in 'Malcolm X.'

Martin Donovan

I AmMeYouWillBlinkMiss

As a member of Congress, I'm often reminded that in baseball, as in diplomacy, you have to know when to hit, when to run, and when to show grace.

Linda Sanchez

BaseballGraceYouKnowRunShow

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