Carl Honore I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people’s expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right. – Carl Honore Dampen Quotes Dust Quotes Expect Quotes Expectations Quotes Feel Quotes Figure Quotes Magic Quotes Oracle Quotes Peoples Quotes Public Quotes Slow Quotes Sparkly Quotes Sprinkle Quotes Wand Quotes Wave Quotes I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly. I’ve teamed up with one of the headmasters at Eton College, and we’re spearheading a kind of ‘slow education movement in Britain’. It’s based on this idea of moving away from the fast-food approach to learning and going to something deeper, more woolly, harder to measure.
Lexi Underwood When I was younger, there weren’t many people that were open about going through anxiety, so I never knew how to deal with it. – Lexi Underwood
Norman Finkelstein I’m politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world. – Norman Finkelstein
Charles de GaullePolitics Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. – Charles de Gaulle
Sandra Bernhard I don’t like surgery. I don’t like elective surgery, I don’t like surgery that you have to have. – Sandra Bernhard
Nance O'Neil An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false. – Nance O’Neil
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