Alfie Kohn Quotes
The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.
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I mean, I think I just it added to my excitement to playing today, and just going out there and doing the best I could, and no matter what happened, the end of the day was going to be a good end.
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I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.
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I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.
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We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.
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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
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If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.
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I look back on my life like everybody does but not just career. I mean I look back on my life as a whole, so I don't think that I dwell there or anything and in terms of work I hope that there is a lot in front of me.
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Judiciary is where my passion is.
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That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if a black person says he thinks O.J. Simpson's guilty, other blacks will cut their eyes at him and say, 'You ought to go somewhere and sit down and shut up.'
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You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.
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I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
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It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.
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Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.
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So this is the fate of one who lives for vengeance..
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Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.
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The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.
