Carl Honore Quotes

We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.

Carl Honore

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Defense is all about if you want to play or not, if you really take matchups personal. A lot of guys don't. Once again, that's the league that we're in. That's not the league that used to be.

Jimmy Butler

YouPlayWantPersonalTakeDefense

A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

CreationProductCompanyContentOwn

Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

FightLookReligionsManifestation

If done correctly, strengthening our trade relationship with India will create jobs here in America.

Ami Bera

RelationshipAmericaIndiaCreate

Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled.

Silvia Colloca

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Albums take a lot out of you.

Travie McCoy

YouOutTakeLotAlbums

Two big questions that people ask me are: if we make these robots more and more human-like, will we accept them - will they need rights eventually? And the other question people ask me is, will they want to take over?

Rodney Brooks

PeopleMeQuestionsRobotsWant

In a democracy, when you get 20 million people in the street, you resign.

Mohamed ElBaradei

PeopleDemocracyYouStreetGet

A bar is a factory, a marketing organization, and a service organization all in one.

Jon Taffer

ServiceOrganizationMarketingBar

'Star Trek' came along fairly early. And I don't know what they saw in me that said Captain Kruge, because I hadn't done anything remotely like that, but it worked out.

Christopher Lloyd

MeEarlyKnowSaidDoneCaptain

Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.

Christine McVie

WritingLearnFloatingRoomAnything

Even as a little girl, my mom never wanted me to watch BET, but when I was at my grandparents' house, and my older cousins were there and I could watch it, I was infatuated with the idea that I could one day be a DJ or the host of a show.

Winnie Harlow

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