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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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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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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I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
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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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It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.
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You don't dream so that you can remember it. You dream to achieve it.
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I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.
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To feel controlled is to lose interest.
