Alison Gopnik Quotes
Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies - the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.
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Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as possible.
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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
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It's things like Wikipedia that help us to advance as a society and help us to accelerate our evolution. If you're a researcher and you need some answer to something, and in today's world you can find it this quickly, it allows you to develop whatever you are doing much faster.
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I pray that we will treat each and every one of our Heavenly Father's children lovingly, tenderly, and individually, as He would have us treat them. I also pray that we will always be mindful of the power each one of us has to make a difference and to influence the world in which we live.
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Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.
