Alison Gopnik Quotes

The science can tell you that the thousands of pseudo-scientific parenting books out there - not to mention the 'Baby Einstein' DVDs and the flash cards and the brain-boosting toys - won't do a thing to make your baby smarter. That's largely because babies are already as smart as they can be; smarter than we are in some ways.

Alison Gopnik

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I once told a journalist that girls call me 'Kitten,' but I couldn't have been more sarcastic, and no matter how many times I've said that it was a joke, it still doesn't go away.

Joaquin Phoenix

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I wasn't expecting two seconds of me on the medal stand to go viral after the Olympics. I came back to my room after the medal ceremony, and my dad said this picture of me doing a face I don't even remember making is blowing up.

McKayla Maroney

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I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

Jean Rostand

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What is the difference between the novelist and the liar? At some moments, I have often wondered.

Amitava Kumar

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One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they're considered crazy people or something.

Michaela Watkins

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There are those of us that believe if you truly want to try drive down the cost of gas, if you really want to solve the problem, then you should be pursuing the extraction of our resources that are right here at home: alternative energy and traditional.

Jason Chaffetz

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In my opinion, education is the finest gift an individual can give a young person.

Donald Bren

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In the wake of 9/11, my wife Trish and I were stranded on the East Coast. We had planned a vacation to Greece, but flights had been halted. Instead, we ended up on a tiny island off the coast of Georgia.

Brad Thor

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When I left the show, the fans were so amazing in terms of the outpouring of support and continued support all that time whatever ways they could be in touch with me.

Alice Barrett

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I'm eulogised by a lot of men, but they wouldn't take me home to meet their mothers.

Shilpa Shetty

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There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live.

Paul Theroux

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