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 would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.
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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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We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.
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Once you embrace the absolute truth that every leader needs a mentor, you can begin to achieve the massive growth and success that you seek.
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The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
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Alix MacKenzie had stopped teaching because we had a child and she stayed home to take care of the baby, and I taught.
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Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning.
