Alison Gopnik Quotes
One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.
Alison Gopnik
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
Tammy Baldwin
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Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
Pablo Picasso
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
Dana Goodyear
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In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
Carli Lloyd
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When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
Natalie Cole
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Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
Ralph Adams Cram
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
M. Night Shyamalan
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I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.
Joe Conason
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Well, when I was younger, in high school, I started out smoking pot. Which escalated into taking acid on a regular basis, which escalated into selling acid. And then I started, when I went to college, I started doing opiates.
John Wozniak
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I know that some people work differently, but I have to work from the inside out. It doesn't matter how big the character is, there has to be a truthful core.
Lesley Ann Warren
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I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like 'Tristan,' goat's milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk, boats and bullfights; I dislike 'Aida,' parsnips, long novels, narrative poems, cold, pretentious folk, buses and bridges.
Langston Hughes
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One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.
Alison Gopnik