Alfie Kohn Quotes
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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I want to help people; that's it.
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My father was military, so I traveled a lot, so I had 13 to 15 first days in new schools. Bullies transcend culture, unfortunately, and I had to deal with them wherever I went. I knew how to defend myself. But I didn't know how to fight.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
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It's hard not to be the straight man when Zach Galifianakis is there. He's such a delightfully bizarre creature. Everything he does is so surprising. He's such a live wire. It's just so exciting to watch.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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I always think that friends and family are off-bounds. I went into politics; they didn't.
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When a woman says she won't, it's a good sign that she will. And when she says she will, it is an even better sign.
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
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My father, to me, was 10 feet tall.
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I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books - brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and would re-create them for battered people, and re-awaken joy and magnanimity.
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Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning.
