Alfie Kohn Quotes
Students should not only be trained to live in a democracy when they grow up; they should have the chance to live in one today.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know.
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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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When you start to live your dream, it's not quite what you thought it was because there is a lot of overwhelming stuff that comes on top of it, and you have to figure it all out.
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We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.
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I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
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Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
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The appointment of judges to the higher judiciary cannot be the sole domain of a few members of the higher judiciary. This turf must be shared.
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A stronger E.U. of defence makes NATO stronger.
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My next baby will be my new record.
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If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
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Seriously, though, he's doing a grand job!
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience (in this case, the judge or the jury) that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
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Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
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As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
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Students should not only be trained to live in a democracy when they grow up; they should have the chance to live in one today.
