Jean Piaget Quotes
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.Jean Piaget
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
Taylor Dye -
I'm not a control freak.
Fiona Apple -
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Karl Marx -
We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.
Zac Brown Band -
In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
Ingrid Betancourt -
I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
Kat Edmonson
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I've sort of heard that 'it' girl thing, but not really. Hearing it from a few people doesn't solidify it in my mind and I wouldn't know how to solidify that title. It's so elusive and what does it mean, I don't know?
Rachel McAdams -
In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
Adam DeVine -
I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
Val Kilmer -
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
I. M. Pei -
I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
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I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
P. J. O'Rourke -
My mum told me once I was a Hindu.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.
Orison Swett Marden -
With giant sites like Facebook and MySpace becoming as generic as Yahoo and AOL of old, more and more sites will be looking for an edge by drilling down deeply to serve a highly targeted audience.
Kara Swisher -
I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
Ralph Steadman -
America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.
Bainbridge Colby
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We want to create content that our fans will like but at the same time stretches us creatively, with our own little touch.
Kian Lawley -
Don't have time for memories, too busy making them.
Allan Stratton -
I love all these things where proportions have been changed and altered.
Jeremy Scott -
He’s marrying me to have a faithful servant, that’s the reason all men get married.
Elena Ferrante -
Those subject to capital punishment are real human beings, with their own backgrounds and narratives. By contrast, those whose lives are or might be saved by virtue of capital punishment are mere 'statistical people.' They are both nameless and faceless, and their deaths are far less likely to be considered in moral deliberations.
Cass Sunstein -
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
Jean Piaget