Steven Pinker (Steven Arthur Pinker) Quotes

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

Steven Pinker

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• By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Mind
  • End
  • Defeated

• Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Character
  • Girl

• At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Humor
  • Going
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• I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Girl
  • Day
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• I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Home
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• Using a service such as Chegg.com, students can save on average more than $600 a year when they rent textbooks over purchasing them.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • Service
  • Year
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• Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • Country
  • Family

• Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.

  

  Harold Perrineau
  • History
  • Knowing
  • Scared

• If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Up
  • Death
  • Die

• I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Today
  • Me
  • Wonder

• I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Work
  • Game
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• I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Home
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• An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Talent
  • New
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• The neurosis of normality is a case of repetition compulsion caused by the repression of awareness.

  

  Sam Keen

• I find that life is easier when it is just a blurWith no details to confuse who or what or where I wasSo when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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• Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • Insurance

• I started wrestling professionally, I did my first television match at 16, but I was wrestling at country fairs and national armories when I was 14.

  

  Jeff Hardy
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• When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other departments. Workers should know to act like they are going along with what the hacker wants and take copious notes so the company will know what the hacker is trying to find.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • Trying

• The problem with having the name Wyeth is that immediately, when people hear the name, they all of a sudden see weathered barns in a field or something.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • People

• Freedom is not negotiable.

  

  Andy Garcia
  • Freedom

• While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.

  

  Douglas MacArthur
  • Mind
  • Political
  • Enemy

• I never get enough sleep, even when I travel. I wake up in the middle of the night, either with the help of my kids or because my mind is going. I wish I got eight hours a night, but it is more like an interrupted six or seven. The secret is to go to sleep well before midnight.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Kids

• Not going to lie: when I heard that Toni Braxton's sister, Tamar, wanted to have a music career, I was skeptical. I know she sang backup for Toni and is a great reality-TV star, but being a musician is a whole 'nother league. Well, Tamar proved me wrong.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Great
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• Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

  

  Steven Pinker
  • Mind
  • Explanation
  • Genetics