Alfie Kohn Quotes
If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.
Quotes to Explore
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I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about myself, I'm like, 'blah blah blah blah.'
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I would see anything by Antony Gormley.
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I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
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I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov -
Despotism is a long crime.
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'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
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I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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Each pineapple plant produces only one fruit per year. It can take up to two years for the pineapple to ripen, and it's important to wait, because once it's picked, it can't ripen any further. The unripe pineapple is not only horrible tasting but poisonous.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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Many different elements can form isomers, but only a few elements on the periodic table, like hafnium, can form isomers that last more than fractions of a second - and might therefore be turned into weapons.
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And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.
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First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.
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I believe that unless it's a scene where I'm alone, then of course I could do what I want but I think good acting is about what happens between people, not on your face and my face.
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The violence in New York feels really mundane and banal to me. Whereas in the privacy of one's own home, say, like the farm I grew up on in Vermont, the kinds of things that can happen seem much more extreme. Maybe because it's more personal. Or maybe because you block out the things that happen in the city. But it's like seeing things born, live, die, fall apart, and start over again, without any intermediary clean-up steps from some corporate organization.
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The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture.
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If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.
