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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You are always free to choose what you do first, what you do second, and what you do not do at all
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I want to finish my career in Cleveland. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues.
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Pixar is filled with people who don't get rid of their toys.
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There is a wide range of opportunities for us and we see a main part of our strategy as being a company that supplies products across a range of different end applications and indeed we have quite a wide product portfolio which we enhance each year.
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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
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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.
