Alison Gopnik
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES URSULA K. LE GUIN URSULA K. LEGUIN ALISON GOPNIK We don't know all the truth! We only know all the lies! ANTHONY T.HINCKS Pregnancy is barbaric. … The husband's guilty waning of sexual desire, the woman's tears in fr... THE CHILDREN I beheld the trappings of upper-middle-class comfort. The big-screen TV and VCR. The crush of name-b... THE CHILDREN They were all extraordinary children. They were considered excellent teammates, and they will be dee... COLLEEN ROCHE If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die. FRIEDL AND THE CHILDREN OF TEREZIN Maybe I am getting too grown to want to sleep with Mama. But like a baby, I still have this smallnes... CONNIE ROSE PORTER She was remembering His gaze, those deep pools of blue, crystalline in nature, peering deep into her... FRANK L. DESILVA MAGGIE GALLAGHER FRAN LEBOWITZ FREDERICK BUECHNER LISA KLEYPAS STARHAWK All children are affected adversely by bullying but gifted children differ from other children in si... JEAN PETERSON Once upon a time, all children were homeschooled. They were not sent away from home each day to a pl... RACHEL GATHERCOLE LYNDA HERNANDEZ FREDERICK DOUGLAS KEANU REEVES EILEEN CADDY JENNIFER NIVEN If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art... ANSARI EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN J. PETIT-SENN You can say that you dont care what anyone thinks about you, but in the end, its all that really mat... TIFFANY GARLAND RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON MARY EVANS The only thing I leave alone is the ceiling, because white contains all the wavelengths of the visib... JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES I don’t need to worry that Finch and I never filmed our wanderings. It’s okay that we didn’t c... JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES The Nest Houses aren’t there. It’s dark by the time I stop in downtown New Harmony, with its bri... JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES Right now, he crosses his arms and frowns at me. JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES It’s okay to laugh, you know. The earth’s not going to split open. You’re not going to hell. B... JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES The thing is, there are good days and bad days. I feel almost guilty saying they aren't all bad. JENNIFER NIVEN You are all the colors in one, at full brightness. JENNIFER NEVIN JENNIFER NIVEN MICHAEL ENDE Treat your thoughts as if they were guests and wishes as if they were children. VIKRANT PARSAI JAMIE MCGUIRE GERMANY KENT PETER DAVID We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally rea... BILL DRAYTON All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is di... ROALD DAHL STEVEN ERIKSON JOSEPH CAMPBELL Our trade opens to all the world. EZRA STILES Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the thin... ROSALEEN DICKSON I tend to treat it as a real miracle. Almost all the nature miracles are challenged in one degree or... DARRELL BOCK And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and ... BIBLE He wanted to be out on the street all the time and I had to take care of the house and the (three) c... MARGARET WILLIAMS JOHN O'DONOHUE GERMANY KENT Be your own person, don't follow the crowd, and above all, stand out. BEN OAK JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand... MICHAEL SCOTT I'm all in favor of looking deeply into as much as we possibly can. I'm not afraid of knowle... RICHARD PRESTON Adults are only children with a few more years on top. CJ HECK Only when we develop a genuine sense of love and respect towards all members of our human family, wi... JONATHAN CHEN JENNIFER NIVEN We were seeing, touching and hearing the degree of human suffering being experienced by children, ad... RUSSELL JONES Listening is one of the finest ways to demonstrate our love for another human being. How many marria... SUSAN C. YOUNG JUDY GOLD ALBERT EINSTEIN We were only authorized to adopt two children by the government. But the three of them were sisters.... LUZ HOYT HARRIET MARTINEAU HARRIET MARTINEAU Neither your mother nor I have any imagination at all and we certainly didn't bring you up to have o... JOHN BOYNE FLANNERY O'CONNOR ...The life of the parents is the only thing that makes good children. Parents should be very patien... ELDER PORPHYRIOS QUENTIN CRISP All his life he had controlled machines, bent nature and the forces of nature to man and man's needs... PHILIP K. DICK We have tears in our eyes ROALD DAHL “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and und... RON GONZALEZ OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES ANONYMOUS SUZY KASSEM CANDACE BUSHNELL THOMAS SZASZ CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE The family was a team. All the children were very good. He maybe had a chance for two children to be... ANDREI KOZLOV I consider myself very fortunate indeed to have created a character which has captured the imaginati... ERIC HILL DIANE VON FURSTENBERG I'll miss it very much, ... It's going to be very, very difficult when we leave. I've watched famili... JACK SANDERS INGRID NEWKIRK WILLIAM PENN I couldn’t peel my eyes off her face or her body. Even if she had asked me not to follow her, I wo... ANGELA RICHARDSON If the rest of the children are boys and the middle child is a girl, then the experience may be diff... ANNE DUBOIS ANDREW VACHSS BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA JOHN STEINBECK All of the libraries and schools that were devastated in the hurricane are suffering for the books t... CHUCK LEAVELL Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few women and children who told us that... GERONIMO HUGH JACKMAN QUENTIN CRISP MARIA MONTESSORI MATTHEW QUICK I say it to thee again, and doubt never the contrary, that if it were the custom to put the little m... CHRISTINE DE PISAN HERBERT MARCUSE
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And it do... ALISON DOODY I'd like to take more pictures of real celebrities. It would be fabulous to photograph Brad Pitt... ALISON JACKSON ALISON GOMME Fly high... Where the only chill that cuts through you is the wind. Where your heart pounds from exh... VIRGINIA ALISON Where we're located, we're kind of far away from opportunities and activities that might be offered ... ALISON VINCENT The other part of the program features things the children haven't been exposed to at home or within... ALISON VINCENT With some parents' work schedules, some children might be here at the school for 11 hours. ALISON VINCENT The bottom line is that it's for the kids and the parents so they can all have the best experience p... ALISON VINCENT Dog cases cause such severe neighbor problems. The dog cases, they get so contentious. ALISON TATE Well, I care. If you don't do this, you could die. ALISON TATE It's a good thing he didn't touch me. I would have decked him. ALISON TATE He's not even close to ready. He is going to lose everything he's gained this far . . . . To show hi... ALISON TATE It's hard whenever we lose an animal. ALISON SWANK Their counterparts in the wild are out in the weather, too. ALISON SWANK We think the overriding cause of her death was something other than drowning. ALISON SWANK One of the two suspicions is that there was an indirect lightning strike which may have caused the z... ALISON SWANK We're unsure how many are down there. ALISON SWANK We do have quite a few people stopping by offering condolences. ALISON SWANK The group putting this together was looking for a hurdle that would be doable within the time span, ... ALISON SMITH It helps that we know the drugs so we can input it faster. ALISON SMITH We saw it as a unique opportunity to use our knowledge to make this run smoothly. ALISON SMITH Today, the landscape has changed dramatically. ALISON SMITH It sends $3 of your tax money that you already pay into the fund. It sends a message that Maine peop... ALISON SMITH We're all going to miss Jack. ALISON SMITH In both fours, we viewed the race as an opportunity to work on our race plan against a fast opponent... ALISON REYNOLDS There's no evidence to suggest that cooling relations has dampened business. ALISON REYNOLDS Many people have used the argument that opening up trade leads to political reform and social reform... ALISON REYNOLDS The Tibetan people will not be satisfied until there is political change which will give them genuin... ALISON REYNOLDS The police have promised not to do that again and we will demonstrate at every point in this visit. ALISON REYNOLDS What we would like to see is Tony Blair making a public statement of concern over these issues. ALISON REYNOLDS I'm hearing these words about renewal of the ecumenical movement, but I'm looking for a tangible fra... ALISON PRESTON Tracy was frustrated at the start of the season. She wasn't scoring and the links were which wasn't ... ALISON PRESTON Annie was frustrated in the preseason but she's steadily improved and has seven goals. ALISON PRESTON Everyone was upset when Mackenzie went down. When she came back, their level of play went back up. S... ALISON PRESTON Pequannock's only lost two games, both to Madison, so they're obviously a good team. ALISON PRESTON When we played Roxbury in the first round, we found out the final would be on our field. It's exciti... ALISON PRESTON We've got no superstars but they're getting the job done. ALISON PRESTON Kids who commit serious crimes shouldn't go scot-free. But if they are too young to vote or buy ciga... ALISON PARKER Frankly, from a human rights perspective, that raises concerns, ALISON PARKER We're asking for a recognition that these are child offenders and they should have access to parole ... ALISON PARKER For example, Georgia rarely sentences children to life without parole, but it has youth crimes rates... ALISON PARKER This would bring us in line with the rest of the world and make the US act in accordance with human-... ALISON PARKER [Human rights advocates say that the use of juvenile life without parole, or LWOP, is by one measure... ALISON PARKER The big thing was we knew Claudia wasn't going to be able to move that well?[She] really gutted it o... ALISON OJEDA We had chance after chance and you only get so many opportunities and we didn't convert. ALISON OJEDA As long as we have confidence going into our matches, we have a great shot at winning some of those ... ALISON OJEDA Winning sure makes everything more exciting. I thought we played very well. We've been stressing eve... ALISON OJEDA As long as these girls have someone to lead them, they will go above and beyond what they are suppos... ALISON OJEDA We played in those tournaments to prepare us for the spring, and I think we will be well prepared wh... ALISON OJEDA We'll get a lot more eyes on these photos. Our mission was never to keep them in a box. ALISON NORDSTROM These are instructions in desire. It's a staged, idealized vision of a perfectly happy household. ALISON NORDSTROM I suspect that Rothstein was looking for an opportunity to show the dignity of African Americans, ev... ALISON NORDSTROM The Office of War Information asked Parks to provide inspirational photos to support the war effort.... ALISON NORDSTROM He consciously tried to preserve aspects of old Paris. For example, he didn't shoot the Eiffel Tower... ALISON NORDSTROM ALISON MOYET ALISON MOYET ALISON MOYET ALISON MOYET ALISON MOYET ALISON MOYET ALISON MOYET ALISON MOYET ALISON MOYET ALISON MOYET It's always a good thing to have places to go and things to do. ALISON MORANO Destinations with a capital D. ALISON MORANO The major goal is going to be, they will never say the Democratic Executive Committee wasn't there f... ALISON MORANO You'll see more of us in the media. You'll see more of us at events. You'll see more position statem... ALISON MORANO This is just the beginning. We are very pleased. ALISON MARQUISS We're working on a campaign for the next season and we're also executing on the remediation plan to ... ALISON MARQUISS We're working on a campaign for the next season and we're also executing on the remediation plan to ... ALISON MARQUISS If there were something that were shutting down companies, of course it is vital that our company co... ALISON MARQUISS I think with these projections the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] will be in a good po... ALISON MARQUISS We're approaching the finish line and look forward to providing vaccine for people to get vaccinated... ALISON MARQUISS It's an ongoing process. ALISON MARQUISS Our third-quarter earnings report is October 25, so we hope to have a more concrete number then, or ... ALISON MARQUISS The [FDA] release yesterday was the last regulatory step. ALISON MARQUISS [Full FDA clearance has not yet been achieved, but] there are no regulatory hurdles except supplemen... ALISON MARQUISS Truth and Consequences ALISON LURIE We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it i... ALISON LURIE As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the f... ALISON LURIE There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the ... ALISON LURIE I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that... ALISON LOHMAN I mean, God, I'm so lucky right now with the opportunities that I've had. There's nothing to worry a... ALISON LOHMAN I like to take a character and develop it. 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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we a... 
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we a... 
Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they ... 
I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all ... 
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. 
We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us -... 
Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
Amory Lovins says the primary design criteria he uses is the question “How do we love all the chil... 
Don't belive what others tell you. You belive in what you belive; there is nothing better. 
The soul that is within me no man can degrade. 
I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people. 
Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their... 
The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave. 
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty ... 
Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Conceits and Caprices. 
Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us f... 
I have never been contained except I made the prison. 
If that blue could stay for ever; if that hole could remain for ever." There was nothing to make him... 
Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can’... 
If I was drowning you would part the sea
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Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. 
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Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. 
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While the heart beats, hope lingers. 
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I'm addicted to a really tough workout. I like to be drenched in sweat when I'm done because... 
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