Steven Pinker (Steven Arthur Pinker) Quotes
With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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Do not suffer pain and torment without reason. Somebody All-Powerful and All-Compassionate owns everything. Rely on His Power and do not accuse His Compassion. Renounce grief and anxiety ad accept relief. Be rid of your troubles and find serenity.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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It could be interesting doing something with Kanye.
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I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
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I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.
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While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'
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To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.
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Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.
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The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit.
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The white horse of heroin will ride you to hell.
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Whatever, crazy chick who maybe lives here and maybe also breaks into Michael's house when they're all gone. I'm out. Have a nice delusion. -Shayne
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John Conyers and I were the ones who wrote the bill that provides for Medicare for all. And, so, even though the single-payer plan is not what's before the Congress, to expand Medicare, so that people 55 and up would be - would have the chance to buy in, that's - that would be a step in the right direction, no question about it.
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Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for: it has broadened the limits of our sorrowful life, it has lit up the sweetness of our hours of happiness by effacing the pettinesses that diminish us, bringing us back pure and new to what was, what will be, what music has created for us.
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If I had a gun, I'd shoot a hole into the sun and love would burn this city down for you.
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I think that people are generally really terrible at being ambassadors of their own work.
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My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98 per cent with a chimpanzee. Banana's don't do psychological consistency. And the tiny part of us that's different - the special Homo sapiens bit - is faulty. It doesn't work. Sorry about that.
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I think it's innate in human nature to want to make a difference, to make your life meaningful.
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I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform. But if you dress up in a police officer's uniform, it doesn't mean that you are an officer; it can mean something else. But this is the starting point, and the best way is to not to fit into this uniform but to make this uniform a part of yourself.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.
