Alison Gopnik Quotes
I wanted to answer big questions about humanity, about how it is that we understand about the world, how we can know as much as we do, why human nature is the way that it is. And it always seemed to me that you find answers to those questions by looking at children.
Alison Gopnik
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I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
Rachel Zoe
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
Larry Bird
I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
Camille Claudel
Fans will express themselves. We will always have the best security possible, as we always do. And I hope that Cleveland and the fans, you would hope that everybody keeps it to a certain level, because anything you do that crosses the line isn't going to look bad for anybody but the franchise and Cleveland.
Dan Gilbert
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
Barbra Streisand
The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
Haley Reinhart
My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
Sadie Jones
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
Virginia Woolf
Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the end of Disney's version of 'Cinderella,' see the stepsisters' eyes get pecked and pecked by doves, because Disney wanted to market the story for wholesome family viewing.
Kate Bernheimer
What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!
Pietro Aretino
I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
Sam Heughan
I wanted to answer big questions about humanity, about how it is that we understand about the world, how we can know as much as we do, why human nature is the way that it is. And it always seemed to me that you find answers to those questions by looking at children.
Alison Gopnik