Alfie Kohn Quotes
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
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Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.
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When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.
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I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.
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Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.
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But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
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The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
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Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
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My understanding, from what I've learned so far about Commissioner Gordon, is that he's the older guy with the mustache who relates with our hero in a certain way.
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I'm in the major league now.
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When the first American steps on the red dust of Mars, it's going to be because of computer scientists.
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Clarinet is often associated with certain genres, like swing or folk music. I combine the old and new, using the clarinet as an expressive tool and not in one genre. I'm just happy that people are drawn to what I do.
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Although technology has enhanced our lives in many ways, it has also ensured the erosion of imagination.
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The distance between me and Benny [Goodman], was that I was trying to play a musical thing, and Benny was trying to swing. Benny had great fingers; I'd never deny that. But listen to our two versions of 'Star Dust.' I was playing; he was swinging.
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Who said that being Latino is to be a stereotype? Characters are stereotypes when making plans or without shades. I do not believe in the picture or model established in the movies.
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Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.
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Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things.
