Alfie Kohn Quotes
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
Vaclav Havel
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
Jack Reed
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
Ralph Fiennes
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In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
Ian Mckellen
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For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
E. M. Forster
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I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.
Omari Hardwick
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I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.
Gary Johnson
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At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
Laura Linney
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
Dan Rather
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I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
Og Mandino
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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
T. Boone Pickens
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Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
Xun Kuang
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I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.
Rachel Zoe
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Education is very important to me.
J. K. Simmons
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But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.
Patricia Hewitt
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Maybe I need to make a change, or maybe it's living here in New York or using social media or working in media and entertainment, but I feel like I'm constantly trying to maintain this sense of, 'Why do I do what I do?'
Tavi Gevinson
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Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
Vernon Howard
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It's not the size of the nose that matters, it's what's inside that counts.
Steve Martin
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It talked about the kind of man that he is and as a player you always want this kind of coach. You always dream to play for this kind of coach.
Braylon Edwards
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Letting the mind control the vital breath is called force.
Lao Tzu
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
Leon Trotsky
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To control students is to force them to accommodate to a preestablished curriculum.
Alfie Kohn