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 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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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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And all for love, and nothing for reward.
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Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.
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There's a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain't got it.
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As a high-school drop-out, I knew I wanted to write, but I wasn't overly confident that I was going to be writing anything serious. I was happy enough with the idea that I could be a penny-a-word guy and survive.
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I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
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California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.
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Instinct reveals itself as self-concentrating, self-edifying it is limitation. Intuition produces self-denial, self-destruction； it is expansion. Culture can develop both. If it develops instinct, animal nature appears. Then culture destroys the intuitive capacity which men have even found in a primitive state.
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Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning.
