Alfie Kohn Quotes
The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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It's not necessary that every film has to hit Rs 100 crore box office, or the Rs 50 crore budget. If the film makes double of its project budget, we consider that a hit, and that also means that the film is in profit.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.
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I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
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We have met the enemy and he is us.
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When I moved to Atlanta, I felt like an outsider - away from my friends and family except for the LGBTQ community.
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Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.
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Happiness" alone does not guarantee mental health and well-being. A tempering dose of disappointment- an occasional taste of frustration and learning that you do recover from it- goes a long way toward producing long-term contentment. Indeed the ability to ride out the bad times without feeling doomed is essential to survival. When happiness is not taken for granted, and when one is acquainted with its opposite it is more easily savored and has more lasting effects.
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Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
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I grew up loving Ridley Scott and Tony Scott and Michael Bay and Adrian Lyne.
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Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .
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The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.
