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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I was mixing iced tea and lemonade in my kitchen since as long as I can remember. It wasn't until some time in the early 1960s that it became associated with me publicly.
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Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone.
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Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.
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Some people might be surprised that 'Rambo's creator has a doctorate in American literature. One of my influences is Henry James, whose major theme is awareness. Whether I'm writing about military personnel, law enforcement, or De Quincey, the persistent theme is paying attention in a hostile world.
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A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.
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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.
