Alison Gopnik Quotes

The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.

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• I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Good
  • God
  • Bad

• I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Worry
  • Idea
  • Often

• Salesforce's Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I saw that Salesforce understands social.

  

  J.P. Rangaswami
  • Company
  • Social
  • Convinced

• Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • May
  • Understanding
  • Same

• I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • World
  • Challenge
  • Creating

• I can't dance.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Dance

• I have always wanted my children's dads to be involved in their lives. Not just the day-to-day aspect, but the emotional shifts that they go through, when little things pop up - they need to be included, absolutely, and for the children to feel that they are.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Children
  • Emotional

• My hair had been dyed blonde for 'Dredd.' After 'Dredd,' I was really fried because of the blonde hair dye, and so I cut it into a bob with bangs and that's how it was during 'Being Flynn.'

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Hair
  • Being
  • Blonde

• You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Life
  • Know
  • My Life

• The whole spirit of 'Eddie The Eagle' is that it's the taking part that counts, not the winning.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Winning
  • Spirit
  • Eagle

• At the corner of the white marble platform, which is 23 yards above the level of the ground, stand four minarets, also of marble, with interior staircases and capped by cupolas, which are 7 cubits in diameter and rise to a total of 32 cubits from the pavement of the said platform to the filial, appearing as it were, like ladders reaching towards the heavens.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks

• The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do, and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay...

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Life
  • Live
  • Die

• True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Writing
  • Art
  • True

• I stepped back and all I saw was rain through windowpanes that looked like melting silver.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Rain

• Man, I love Limp Bizkit, Johnny Lange, many people.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • People

• The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad. I joined my brigade to take command at the end of June.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • Up
  • June

• The central question is whether Medicare and Medicaid should remain entitlement programs guaranteeing a certain amount of care, as Democrats believe, or become defined contribution programs in which federal spending is capped, as Republicans suggest.

  

  Christina Romer
  • Believe
  • Question

• If I have an iPod, I'm good.

  

  Breckin Meyer
  • Good

• Predictability is the cousin of death: I don't necessarily want people to see me coming. You know?

  

  CeeLo Green
  • People
  • Death
  • Cousin

• You can register a political objection in a number of ways.

  

  Nicholson Baker
  • Political

• For years, I've written narrators who aren't gender-identified. When I do autobiographical stuff, that's different, obviously. But I've always tried to keep my songs as potentially not a man's thing.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Different

• I've been in perfect health and perfectly happy all my life. I don't take any pills; I just get up, clean up after my wife, and start typing every day.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Up
  • Happy

• It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial debacle. After all, they and their predecessors engineered the approaching tsunami. As the situation becomes direr, the federal government's actions will grow more oppressive.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Believe
  • Action
  • Financial

• The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.

  

  Alison Gopnik