Carl Honore Quotes

Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.

Carl Honore

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FoodPeopleSlowRosesLandscape

My mom used to say that if someone woke her up in the middle of the night and asked how old she was, she'd answer 27. Hearing her, I'd think, 'That's ridiculous; your job as my mom is to be old.'

Jennifer Egan

JobMomNightThinkSomeoneSay

I'm a massive sucker for music documentaries.

Stephen Mangan

MusicSuckerDocumentariesMassive

You have a huge demographic shift that's happening in America. Globally.

Troy Carter

AmericaYouShiftHappeningHuge

Well, I guess that early 12 string. The first Martin I bought. I bought it around 1957 with money I earned as a janitor assistant. I bought brand new. I still have that.

Roger McGuinn

MoneyBrandEarlyNewFirstEarned

My mother's sister married a man from Barbados, and my cousins were raised in Barbados. So we traveled down there, they came up every summer for camp, and I started paying attention to their music. And that was the first place I ever remember hearing reggae and liking it.

Matisyahu

MotherMusicManSisterRemember

The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless as throwing a stone in a river.

Denise Mina

YourselfRiverSuicideStoneJust

I don't feel like I'm really in the public eye because I feel like I'm one of the public.

Cloris Leachman

EyeFeelBecauseI Feel LikeLike

My training was with some old British communists who had organized unions in the '60s and '70s. And their philosophy was, if you can't drink a pint with a man, how are you gonna get him to go on strike and risk his life?

Boots Riley

LifeManTrainingPhilosophyYouGo

'Senna' took five years, 'Amy' took three years. You try and say, 'Look, there's no deadline.' That's important. Just saying, 'We've got to make the film. And once the film's ready, it will be out there.'

Asif Kapadia

SayingYouLookReadyThreeSay

I don't need to move my body. I need to move my ideas.

Pierre Nanterme

IdeasBodyNeedMove

Family counts for a lot in this world.

Toby Regbo

FamilyWorldCountsLot

I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.

Linda Hunt

IntelligenceManI CanEmbraceHead

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