Carl Bereiter Quotes
We do not truly own our thoughts or experiences until we have negotiated them with ourselvesand for this writing is the prime medium.
Quotes to Explore
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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I discovered television is a great way to deal with the chaos of new motherhood. I would put the babies to bed and get lost in a trashy reality show.
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You must prune dead or dying wood.
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Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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I feel like if I'm sick, I need flowers. I'm very open about saying what I need from a partner, and he needs to meet those demands.
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
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When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.
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I make an awesome soup with coconut milk and shrimps; it takes me five hours to prepare the whole thing. It does become very spicy, but you can definitely taste all the ingredients.
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God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
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I don't let other people tell me what to do. Well, unless it's my mum.
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I do know what my first meal in the next world would be... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.
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In Argentina, we're surrounded by polo ponies. The farm covers roughly 170 hectares, and there are no cattle or sheep, just horses.
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I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.
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Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
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One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.
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The demographic of young people... in each hand is a phone, more powerful than a computer. It's a doorway to the digital nation, to education.
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I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my own material would be incredible.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
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The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.
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You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.
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We do not truly own our thoughts or experiences until we have negotiated them with ourselvesand for this writing is the prime medium.
