"One of the great things about this genie [from Aladdin] is that when Robin Williams created him, and they created this after him, they were allowed to go crazy and when they had to go find someone to play the role live, they had to find someone who was nutty enough to go in different directions."

-- James Monroe Iglehart

#Crazy Quotes #Play Quotes #Robins Quotes

“The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.”
“Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven and earth, a Consciousness or Conscience of the Universe, but that even so it would not be sufficient reason to assume that the soul of every man was immortal in the traditional and concrete sense. And he replied, "Then what good is God?”
“Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.”
“You thought you could figure that out online? Somehow I don't think hellions are much into social networking.”
“To mock at a soul in pain is a dreadful thing.”
“I don't know why you'd go to a comedian and say, "You know what? You have a large menu of items, but this one thing I did not like and therefore, you should be shut down. You should cease to make a living and you should be thrown out in the streets."”
“In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long.”

Source : Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.232, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”

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