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 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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Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.
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What Malcolm X did not know is that back in 1962, a collaborator of Alex Haley, fellow named - a journalist named Alfred Balk had approached the F.B.I. regarding an article that he and Haley were writing together for The Saturday Evening Post, and the F.B.I. had an interest in castigating the Nation of Islam, and isolating it from the mainstream of Negro civil rights activity.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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For the Buddha, the key to liberation is mental purity and correct understanding, and for this reason he rejects the notion that we can gain salvation by leaning on any external authority.
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Lukewarm people give money to charity and to the church...so long as it doesn't impinge on their standard of living. Lukewarm people tend to choose what is popular over what is right. Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want to be saved from the penalty of their sin. Lukewarm people rarely share their faith with their neighbors, coworkers, or friends. Lukewarm people are thankful for their luxuries and comforts, and rarely consider trying to give as much as possible to the poor.
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To feel controlled is to lose interest.
