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.

Alison Gopnik

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• Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Use
  • Intelligence
  • Guidance

• Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Real
  • Business
  • Present

• We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Power
  • Want
  • Fool

• Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.

  

  Ian McKeever
  • Die
  • Learn
  • Everyone

• If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Accountability
  • Trash
  • Predictions

• When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Know
  • Talent
  • Paint

• 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.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Up
  • House
  • Player

• Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Energy
  • Technology
  • Security

• 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.

  

  Garth Hudson
  • Creative
  • Process
  • Winner

• I've been around some really good guys from different teams.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Good
  • Different
  • Really

• I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Friend
  • United States

• I basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Training
  • Week
  • Gym

• I believe that you should move and eat right.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Believe
  • You
  • I Believe

• Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.

  

  Ludwig von Mises
  • Depression

• 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.

  

  Win Butler
  • Music
  • May
  • Energy

• When you interview celebrities, they're so guarded so many times, they can't reveal anything.

  

  Chelsea Handler

• To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • World
  • Art

• 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.

  

  Darren Criss
  • Time
  • Good
  • Real

• It's really important to teach people how to get food, how to grow it, how to pick it, how to prepare it and what's safe to eat.

  

  Arthur Potts Dawson
  • People
  • Important
  • Food

• Mother was born about 1880, and died in 1984 at the age of 103.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Mother
  • Born
  • Died

• It's always a better choice to write a new book than it is to keep pounding your head against the submissions wall with a book that's just not happening. The next book you write could be the book, the one that isn't a fight to get representation for at all.

  

  Diana Peterfreund
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Fighting

• When I work in English, I'd say I don't see a big difference in my rapport with my team or the actors. When I work in English or French, the music of the language is different, but beyond that music, in the depths, it's the same.

  

  Denis Villeneuve
  • Work
  • Music
  • Different

• The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Wife
  • Husband

• 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.

  

  Alison Gopnik