Alison Gopnik Quotes

What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.

Alison Gopnik

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• My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Morning

• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Law
  • Conscience
  • Follow

• We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Way
  • Need

• Life is made up of marble and mud.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mud

• Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Earth
  • Food
  • Environment

• To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Mom

• If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • You
  • Best

• The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Truth
  • Brain
  • Details

• Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Money
  • Mom
  • Bank

• It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Evil
  • Explain
  • Abhorrent

• I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Doing

• I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Great
  • School
  • Art

• The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • Change
  • Model
  • Social

• There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Live
  • Like
  • Audience

• I am about safety for the people and the planet.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Safety
  • Planet

• Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Chance
  • Try
  • Risks

• A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.

  

  Zendaya
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Women

• Thrée maie a kepe counsayle, if two be away.

  

  John Heywood

• It would be right to state that, with the successful flight of the XR-4 in the summer of 1942, the helicopter became a reality in the United States.

  

  Igor Sikorsky
  • Reality
  • Summer
  • Successful

• Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power, this story never would have been written. Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices. The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Country
  • Guilty
  • Concern

• The usual practice just isn't enough. I want more edge over my opponents. Cross-training is so important. I can improve myself and have a lower impact on my body.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Important
  • Practice
  • Training

• What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Knowledge
  • Practice