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.Steven Pinker
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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.
Ban Ki-moon -
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.
Ralph Norman -
Nobody has said to men, 'It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.'
Warren Farrell -
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.
Carl Jung -
Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
Harold Washington -
Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
Becky G
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One shouldn't know the future.
Zubin Mehta -
In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
Ted Shackelford -
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
Olga Kurylenko -
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.
Mahershala Ali -
You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
Harold Prince -
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.
Padmasree Warrior
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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.
Hamish Bowles -
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.
Mal Peet -
I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
Dan Quayle -
Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Baseball gets better for whatever reason.
Rafael Palmeiro -
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.
Anton Chekhov
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I don't think there's going to be sustainable demand for restaurants that force you to spend hours there.
Danny Meyer -
I have to stop and think about everything I do. I'm very calculated in a lot of ways.
Andrea Navedo -
It would take them three days to tape a thirty minute show, and you just got so worn out, you did it however they wanted, just to get it over with.
Wanda Jackson -
Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl.
Natalie Dormer -
Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment... come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.
Ignatius of Antioch -
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.
Steven Pinker