Alison Gopnik Quotes
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The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
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Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.
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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
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Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better... a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.
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We know there must be new physics. For example, we cannot explain what dark matter is.
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Who the fuck is this? Pagin' me at 5:46 in the morning. Crack of dawnin'. Now I'm yawnin', wipe the cold out my eye. See who's this pagin' me, and why?
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Just making a movie the way 'All is Lost' had to be made was a great experience, because it was structured differently than any other film I will make for the rest of my life.
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May is much sunshine through small leaves.
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On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.
