Alison Gopnik Quotes

Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb.

Alison Gopnik

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Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

John George Nicolay

MenEnoughCongressFirstFortunate

I struggled with each of these studies and I was uncertain about what they meant, and often confused, and then I tried to put together what I was seeing.

Robert Jay Lifton

TogetherConfusedSeeingUncertain

If you got every single artist in the world in one room, and you put Miles on one side and Prince on the other side, those are the two people that everybody would be trying to get a glimpse of. And Michael Jackson would be the other one.

Robert Glasper

PeopleWorldTryingYouArtistRoom

There are a few very small incompatible changes - I really doubt most people will ever run into them.

Stephen Wolfram

PeopleSmallDoubtRunWillChanges

That always has been one of my dreams, to be able to appeal to a bunch of people.

Trombone Shorty

DreamsPeopleAlwaysBeenAble

One of the greatest things about my job is that I can enjoy all the successes of a show, but can still go out in public, not like say, Michael Jordan.

Rob Paulsen

JobEnjoyI CanGoSayOut

I always like to put myself under pressure to improve more.

Mohamed Salah

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A broken immigration system means broken families and broken lives.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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I think working with the primal elements of fire and earth appealed greatly to my father because of the almost magical results.

Claude Picasso

FatherFireThinkResultsEarth

In the country in Kentucky, people are just amazed that anybody in New York wants to read about their lives.

Bobbie Ann Mason

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It means I wake up to sunshine every morning, and I can afford to drink better wine at night. But I haven't completely sold out to Hollywood.

Ashley Jensen

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There's always going to be people that say you're a sellout - anyone who knew you back when or who wants to begrudge you for having success. That's OK. Their opinion of me, and the box they want to put me in, is just simply none of my business.

Ashley McBryde

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