Alfie Kohn Quotes
Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.
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Study first, play afterwards.
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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.
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If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.
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I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
I've always refused to play terrorists.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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You play it the way you always play it. You look for matchups, and you go through your progression, and you throw it to the guy who's most open.
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I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
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I wrote my first play when I was eight.
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I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.
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I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.
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Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we used to have. I don't play cassettes much anymore, but I play records all the time.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.
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There're some places that are more difficult or dangerous to navigate and I wouldn't look forward to going back. Like I'd much rather go back to Afghanistan - which fascinates me - quicker than I'd go back to spend a week walking around Nairobi, Kenya, which is a great and easy way to get yourself killed.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.
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Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.
