Alison Gopnik Quotes
We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up in not just poverty, which wouldn't be so bad, but isolation, lack of people around them, lack of support, lack of ability to go out and play in the dirt.
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.
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Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.
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If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.
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You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
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I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.
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I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
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We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up in not just poverty, which wouldn't be so bad, but isolation, lack of people around them, lack of support, lack of ability to go out and play in the dirt.
