Jean Berko Gleason quotes
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“Your brain is not formed when you're born, you have to build your brain.”
-- Jean Berko GleasonSource : "Unfolding Language, Unfolding Life". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. February 4, 2016.
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“Language develops by interacting with other people talking to you.”
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“Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.”
-- Jean Berko GleasonSource : "Unfolding Language, Unfolding Life". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. November 3, 2011.
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“We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language.”
-- Jean Berko GleasonSource : "Unfolding Language, Unfolding Life". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. November 3, 2011.
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“Kids will use their own system at the stage that they are, they're not (learning merely by) imitating you.”
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“Of the top 30 words that parents are calling kids' attention to ('look at the'), 12 are animals.”
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“I think people should be brave and take a chance and do what excites them.”
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“Different languages cut the world into different slices.”
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“Human beings are able to reflect on their existencefor now that distinguishes us from other creatures.”
-- Jean Berko Gleason
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“What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.”
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“Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped”
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“When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.”
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“All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.”
Source : Song: Ghost World, Album: Bachelor No. 2, 2000
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“I was born in India - but never really lived there.”
Source : "Aasif Mandvi's {ldquo}Today's Special' opens festival" by G. Allen Johnson, www.sfgate.com. March 07, 2010.
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“Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.”
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