Alison Gopnik Quotes
Our babies are like penguins; penguin babies can't exist unless more than one person is taking care of them. They just can't keep going.
Quotes to Explore
-
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
-
Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
-
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
-
Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
-
If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.
-
When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
-
I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
-
Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
-
The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
-
I've been around some really good guys from different teams.
-
I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
-
I basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours.
-
I believe that you should move and eat right.
-
Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.
-
Our music may sound big emotionally, but that's more to do with the playing, the level of musicianship and the full-on energy. Often, the lyrics are often quite small and focused.
-
When you interview celebrities, they're so guarded so many times, they can't reveal anything.
-
To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.
-
When I was in college, I was in the theater department, which for anyone who has been involved in any kind of theater program, you know that it's really wacky and tight-knit, a real family. Me and my good friends from college would do random shows and plays that were sometimes serious, but most of the time really goofy and funny.
-
The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself.
-
You've got to remember that 25 is a great time because, you know, you're passed that 21 thing and it's a high point, a high peak, in life where you're old enough to say what you have discovered, but you're still open to discovering more.
-
Monetary policy causes booms and busts.
-
The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
-
The U.S. immigration system is the most generous in the world, providing each year more green cards for legal permanent residence with a clear path to full citizenship than all the rest of the nations of the world combined.
-
Our babies are like penguins; penguin babies can't exist unless more than one person is taking care of them. They just can't keep going.
