Alison Gopnik Quotes
Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs are all highly intelligent in very different ways.Alison Gopnik
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
Adam Carolla -
Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.
Candice Olson -
For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
Samuel Alexander -
There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
Barton Gellman -
It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
Karl Pilkington -
I still keep my accent.
Samantha Fox
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
Gabrielle Union -
The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
Mahalia Jackson -
I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
Harry Caray -
Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
Nancy Sinatra -
People trash talk me.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
Gary Shteyngart
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
C. V. Raman -
I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
Gautam Singhania -
It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.
Rachel McAdams -
The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
Gaby Hoffmann -
For me personally, the technology that has taken the most unexpected turn in my lifetime is what I refer to as 'the device formerly known as the cell phone.' I still remember many predictions that by 2000 there would only be about a million cell phone users. Boy, were they ever wrong!
Padmasree Warrior
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I don't have a problem if someone else were to say that one of my characters is a good one and another one is not and is a bad one. I try myself not to have any judgment towards my characters, but certainly the audience might.
Asghar Farhadi -
I know that when a fighter is out of the ring for more than two years, when he comes back he isn't the same anymore. Each fighter is different. But each must think, even if something goes wrong, 'I have to make this decision and live with it for the rest of my life.'
Marvin Hagler -
I have often thought that one of the less attractive traits of various professional bodies and institutions is the deeply ingrained suspicion and outright hostility which can exist towards anything unorthodox or unconventional.
Prince Charles -
Don't play dead with a vulture. That's exactly what they want.
Kevin Nealon -
The fact is that we like each other very much, and we of course see each other on stage all the time, but this means more time to spend together, and that's great. We couldn't be happier.
Bill Irwin -
Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs are all highly intelligent in very different ways.
Alison Gopnik