Alison Gopnik Quotes

A theory not only explains the world we see, it lets us imagine other worlds, and, even more significantly, lets us act to create those worlds. Developing everyday theories, like scientific theories, has allowed human beings to change the world.

Alison Gopnik

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ChangeChange The WorldWorldCreate

Being a good girl means suppressing a lot.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

GoodGirlGood GirlBeingMeansLot

There's an awful lot of us who don't quite speak finance, speak money.

John Lanchester

MoneyFinanceSpeakUsAwfulWho

I never went through a gender identity problem, but I did with my sexuality.

Robert Lepage

IdentityGenderProblemNeverDid

My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history to the story and shape it accordingly. I guess you can say it's like I am sending them a letter.

Amy Bloom

LifeHistoryJobI AmPeopleStory

The attitude of the Democrat Party is that wherever there are Republicans they are so bad, they are so discriminatory, they are so racist, they're so bigoted, they're just such reprobates that we can't afford to let them have any say whatsoever in what's happening.

Rush Limbaugh

AttitudeBadPartySayWherever

I will never coach again. I don't want to, but I wouldn't even if I did.

Mike Ditka

WantWillNeverCoachAgainEven

My mom always tells me, 'You need to take a week for yourself and just chill,' but I don't, man. If you want to be successful, I don't think you should take a day off.

Jay Pharoah

DayManYourselfMeMomThink

Our company, it's, uh, really un-sexy. And I think most people get into Hollywood to be showy. We first of all make horror movies, which people turn their noses up at. Second of all, we make cheap movies, and Hollywood's a lot about ego and money and, 'My movie cost $200m!,' you know?

Jason Blum

MoneyPeopleEgoThinkYouKnow

Dweebs are the new chic.

Debby Ryan

NewChic

I disagree with a couple of the stances of the Catholic Church. My older brother is gay, and it's important for me to be able to love him completely and freely, and it's important for me to spread beliefs in the world that are not going to limit people in their love. I can't support a religion that doesn't support my brother.

Anne Hathaway

LoveReligionSupportBrotherPeople

Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.

Allen West

DayMeaningCountryForgottenWorse

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

Peter Warlock

GoodMusicBadOldWhateverModern

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