Alison Gopnik Quotes

Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.

Alison Gopnik

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Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

John C. Maxwell

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Wrestlers give their bodies to their work. I don't know if I like the word 'crazy' here. What I would say is there are people who have a different relationship to their bodies than most people.

John Darnielle

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We have this American president, Obama, born of an African father, who is saying we will not give you aid if you don't embrace homosexuality. We ask, was he born out of homosexuality? We need continuity in our race, and that comes from the woman, and no to homosexuality.

Robert Mugabe

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I don't wish ill will on anybody.

Michael Douglas

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I have a certain memory of the way in which my father loved me until I was 10, and it was unconditional and eternal. I get to carry that for the rest of my life, but on a practical level after age 10, it's just me sort of figuring it out.

Sterling K. Brown

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Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.

Dianna Agron

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I do want to inspire people - young girls who may like to wear boys' clothes and who romanticize women and feel nothing wrong with it.

Syd

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I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.'

Ridley Scott

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I spent my life behind bars, and what people don't know is getting out of prison is really nerve-racking - you're not used to society; you're not used to the world going by so fast - so to step on that lot was quite overwhelming.

Richard Cabral

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There's no point thinking about dying, because it's going to happen anyway, isn't it? I don't waste my time worrying about that.

Lemmy

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I think I'm a born athlete. My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.

Kim Yuna

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If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him; and hence failure arises.

George Muller

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