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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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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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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A designer is like a doctor for a woman. He has a specific job, and if he is doing it well, he will have the gratitude of the woman for the rest of his life.
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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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Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.
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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've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.
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Just as it got easier to use email, it will be easier to use Bitcoin as people invest in it and become more familiar with it.
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That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down each week and get to know your character and get to know the show and get to know what's going on and fall in love with you all over again, like they did in previous shows.
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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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I laugh about it all the time, but, for whatever reason, a lot of people think that I wear a wig. I get emails and tweets about people commenting on my hair being a wig. It's one of the strangest but most entertaining things I've read about myself online.
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To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'
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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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If I can utilise anything, I'll utilise it.
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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
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Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
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As we try to make the financial system safer, we must inevitably confront the problem of moral hazard.
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I've seen villages in South America with no police whatever. Then the cops would arrive, then the sanitary inspectors, and before you know it they've got all the problems - crime, juvenile delinquency, the whole works - just like us.
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With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.
