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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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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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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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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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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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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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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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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What is important is that you should know reality. You should know exactly what is right and what is wrong. For that, as I told you, there is this great power of Kundalini within you. She's the one, she passes through all these centres, enlightens them first of all - so your awareness gets enlightened - and when she pierces through Sahasrara, she joins you to this all-pervading power, which is knowledge, which is love, which is truth.
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Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.
