Alison Gopnik Quotes
Imaginary friends are one of the weirder forms of pretend play in childhood. But the research shows that imaginary friends actually help children understand the other people around them and imagine all the many ways that people could be.

Quotes to Explore
-
I read part of it all the way through.
-
Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
-
I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
-
When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
-
I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
-
Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
-
I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
-
Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
-
I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
-
The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
-
You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
-
I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
-
When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
-
Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
-
In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
-
You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
-
Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
-
You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.
-
They did ask me to do 'Dancing With The Stars;' I said I can do one show, but on that show you have to come up with a new number every week, and I told them that I think I'm a little past that stage.
-
What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.
-
I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry.
-
People are building communities of people who use video. They're sharing them. YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly.
-
And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.
-
Imaginary friends are one of the weirder forms of pretend play in childhood. But the research shows that imaginary friends actually help children understand the other people around them and imagine all the many ways that people could be.