"You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly."

-- Ken Robinson

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“The percentage of couples who stay together after high school is, like, less than five percent, you guys.”
“I feel pretty good when I get out of bed in the morning. I don't feel all beat up, which is nice.”
“One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.”
“I had to be careful. A mistake I made when I submitted ideas initially was that one of them was too much like Elephant and Piggie, thinking that was what it needed to be. That's not what Mo was looking for. But I did definitely keep them in the back of my mind. It was tricky. Like Mo Willems was saying, it had to be something that Elephant and Piggie would like to read, yet we shouldn't make anything that was too much like Elephant and Piggie, because why would you want to do that?”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com
“Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away while scientists debate rival theories for explaining them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air pending the outcome.”

Source : "Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Evolution as Fact and Theory", pp. 254 - 55, 1983.
“I respect every fighter that gets inside of the ring, especially with me.”
“A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.”
“The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.”

Source : "Jill Soloway gave a pretty badass speech at the AFI last night" by Katie Rife, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2015.

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