Alison Gopnik Quotes

Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.

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• I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady.

  

  Larry Wilcox
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• I'm not good with catty girls. I'm too laid-back.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
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• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
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  • Work
  • Mind

• The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

  

  Xavier Becerra
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  • Kids
  • Parents

• I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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  • Think
  • Body

• Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
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  • Cost

• The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
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• Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
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  • Film
  • Emotion

• The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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  • Compassion

• In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.

  

  Florence Kelley
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• If you play cricket for India, money is bound to come, and with IPL in and match money of the Ranjhi trophy, I think money is there. There's no good reason why you should not work hard, because at the end of the day, you want to play for your country.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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• Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

  

  Adam McKay
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  • Thinking
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• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
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• I think that a lot of kids today focus on impressing each other. And while that's really nice, you also have to think about your future, about getting into a good school.

  

  Kara Hayward
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  • School
  • Kids

• Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.

  

  Kary Mullis
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• At the end of the day, I just want to see good gymnastics!

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

  

  Uta Hagen
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  • Know
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• I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways.

  

  Damon Hill
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  • Bad
  • Moment

• It's good to be intuitive.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
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  • Intuitive

• Reading Epictetus, I realized that most of the pain in my life came not from any actual privations or insults but, rather, from the shame of thinking that they could have been avoided.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Reading

• I felt there was a need for us to build a new programming language. I also had come to see that Microsoft functions best when it controls its own destiny.

  

  Anders Hejlsberg
  • Destiny

• It's not a secret - I'm literally one of the best dancers in the world! I mean, not everyone would necessarily agree with that.

  

  Adwoa Aboah
  • World

• We reward people a lot for being rich, for being famous, for being cute, for being thin... one of the values I think we need to instill in our country, in our children, is a sense of 'usefulness', in other words, are we useful, are we making other peoples' lives a little bit better?

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Children

• Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.

  

  Alison Gopnik
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