Alfie Kohn Quotes
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.
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There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.
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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.
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Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.
