Carl Honore Quotes

Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.

Carl Honore

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I am a huge Prince fan. It's a very rare thing for him to have people open for him. It's been the Time and Sheila E., and that's about it. Building a relationship with him has been like a dream come true. I've been looking for a mentor, and I feel like I have that in him.

Jill Scott

RelationshipTimeI AmPeopleFeel

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.

Joan Didion

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If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I'll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don't believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.

Joel Kinnaman

GoodHeroDarknessEvilVillain

I think we all have a kind of dark side, and that's what keeps life - and characters - interesting. That's one of the things that I'm drawn to write about again and again, the secrets we keep and how they shape us.

Jennifer McMahon

LifeThinkInterestingSecretsDark

We love a growing private sector that allows people freedom of choice, to choose their health plan, to choose their doctor, to choose their hospital.

John Fleming

LoveFreedomHealthPeopleDoctor

Sean's movies are provocative and challenging without being slick.

Robin Wright

MoviesWithoutBeingSlickSean

We were playing, not for the drunks, but for the musicians, because it was more intellectually challenging. We needed somewhere to put our energy to show that we were growing, and as we started to achieve this, people came to hear us musically.

Ronnie Hawkins

PeopleEnergyMusiciansAchieveMore

You've got to understand that in Bollywood, every actor is an instrument, and yet a human being. They come to the set with a set agenda, believing, 'This is who I am, this is what I want, and no, I am not going to become that character you want me to.'

Mira Nair

CharacterI AmMeYouUnderstand

Officiating is trying to do your absolute best with what you've got.

Doug Harvey

BestTryingYouGotYourAbsolute

For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He's not from another planet, or filled with radioactive gunk. I mean, Superman is essentially a god, but Batman is more like Hercules: he's a human being, very flawed, and bridges the divide.

Christopher Nolan

GodMeBridgesSupermanSeriously

Openness is something any teacher strives to instill in his or her students.

Chris Raschka

TeacherStudentsHerSomethingHis

When building in a place that already has a dominant style, it's important to behave yourself. Look around; refer to what you see. In the mountains above Salzburg, I saw charming chalets and wildflower meadows. The chalets are cozy - I don't do cozy. The meadows are in a soft disarray - I don't do soft, and I don't do disarray. I do order.

Anouska Hempel

StyleMountainsYourselfBuilding

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