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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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've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.
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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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Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny.
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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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An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.
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Love is the Divine Mother's arms; when those arms are spread, every Soul falls Into them.
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With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.
