Steven Pinker (Steven Arthur Pinker) Quotes
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I think a majority of the people like what he's doing.
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Nobody has said to men, 'It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.'
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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One shouldn't know the future.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to publish more than I do.
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When I started in 1992, I really thought the 'Vogue' fashion department was one of the most frightening places on the planet.
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After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.
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I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
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Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.
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Baseball gets better for whatever reason.
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I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything, through my infidelity.
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I like the old-school muscle cars.
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I lost my parents when I was fairly young.
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Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for.
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Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.
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My biggest mistake: not wanting to help myself into thinking I am happy, that change would come about without really trying to change, or wanting to change. Procrastinating about changing. I do want to change.
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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.
