Elizabeth Spelke Quotes
What our study shows is that children have a fundamental understanding of addition and of numbers and we hope to harness that ability to enhance mathematic instruction.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward teenage phase where it's terrible and doesn't make sense, and we just keep working on it.
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When people talk about the great quarterbacks, it's almost exclusively the guys who have won Super Bowls. There have been some very good ones who hardly get mentioned because they never won the big one. I don't know if that's fair, but that's the way it is.
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For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.
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I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.
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We have international standards regulating everything from t-shirts to toys to tomatoes. There are international regulations for furniture. That means there are common standards for the global trade in armchairs but not the global trade in arms.
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By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very middle-class Indian upbringing. We were never made to realise who we were or that my father and mother were huge stars - it was a very normal house, and I'd like my daughter to have the same thing.
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Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
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I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.
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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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I'm open to everything. Take me anywhere, show me everything.
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I don't do anything with my brows.
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The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.
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I've never been on a water slide in my life.
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If two actors can communicate well during a scene, it works and makes for good chemistry.
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In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney.
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You know, I've never been a comic book person, just because that's not my gig and I don't have a television.
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I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that.
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Not since the multiplication of the loaves and fishes near the Sea of Galilee has there been creativity as miraculous as that of the Keystone XL pipeline. It has not yet been built but already is perhaps the most constructive infrastructure project since the Interstate Highway System. It has accomplished an astonishing trifecta
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Different parents have different standards for their children.
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Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.
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I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives.
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What our study shows is that children have a fundamental understanding of addition and of numbers and we hope to harness that ability to enhance mathematic instruction.
