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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As women and men, we're not primed and taught to feel that women are as inspirational as men.
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The present goal of the individual in group enterprises is to avoid dominance; leadership is felt to be a character disorder.
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There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they're just naturally gifted. I've never considered myself one of those people. I enjoy outworking the opposition.
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Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.
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One thing that keeps me awake at night: I am a mother and, I have to confess with great delight, a grandmother of five girls, which gives me great hope for the future - girl power! Can I say that without alienating all of the men?
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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.
