Howard Gardner Quotes

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.

Howard Gardner

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PositiveSchoolCollegeCareImpact

I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above the title in order to basically brand these movies my own.

John Carpenter

DecisionMoneyBrandNameBackOwn

I never really feel old. Young 'til I die, minus some Internet-speak misunderstandings.

Andy Hurley

FeelDieYoungNeverOldSome

As far back as I remember, and earlier, I was an artisan, a maker and doer. Mechanically minded, my parents said.

John Sulston

ParentsRememberBackSaidFarDoer

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

Amy Winehouse

MusicMyselfChallengeWritingSee

In the South we experienced, you know, some black kids who gave us a hard time because - cause 'you talk white.' We didn't talk white. We talked fairly proper. Plus, we had a Midwestern accent, so we didn't have a Southern accent, either. So it wasn't really talking white; it was talking different.

Stuart Scott

TimeBlackTalkingYouWhiteKnow

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

Jon Bon Jovi

HatePoliticsPeopleMeVoiceStand

Don't let anyone tell you your ideas are stupid or the thing you feel most passionate about 'won't work' - it's happened to me time and time again, and we find that if you push at what you think is interesting hard enough, you're probably right.

Dennis Crowley

WorkTimeMeIdeasStupidThink

I was obsessed with Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan books, delightfully twisted stuff.

Chelsea Cain

HillTwistedBooksStuffJordanVal

My dad's from Barbados, but I lived with my mum. She brought me up; my uncle took me to the football. I grew up in a white family, I'd say.

Ashley Cole

FamilyFootballMeUncleWhiteSay

I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

Phil Collins

StartFinishGoingTourBetween

In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public.

Shah Rukh Khan

WaterCreativityWorldLazinessDown

Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text - the more the better, really.

Lydia Davis

BetterMoreMayNumberTextCourse

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