Alfie Kohn Quotes
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
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For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.
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We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.
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If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.
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If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.
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I never, never lend any of my own clothes for parts any more because you lose your clothes; they become the characters' clothes, and you can never wear them again.
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You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
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Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
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I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
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I'm obviously not a guy who focuses on weight too much. But for certain jobs, you have to gain or lose weight.
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I kind of just want to get to know people and I have a genuine interest in people that listen to my music. I've just always felt like that. I think it's from the days of playing guitar to a few people and being very conversational and very intimate and I've always wanted to keep that vibe.
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I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.
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If you truly have it, you never lose it; and if you lose it, you never truly had it.
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Reconciliation means - in victory, I win and you're wrong, and then you lose.
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Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.
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I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.
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To feel controlled is to lose interest.
