Steven Pinker (Steven Arthur Pinker) Quotes
If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.
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I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.
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I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
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However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
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We can choose food that doesn't lead to illnesses like diabetes and cancer. We can choose food that doesn't contribute to water pollution and climate change. And we can choose food that keeps local economies vibrant and farmers on their land.
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I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.
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I couldn't care less about business.
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There's so many great designers. I'm a little bit of a vintage junkie when it comes to going out. I like to get unique pieces that you won't see everyone wearing, but at the same time I don't like to break the bank. I like to find great vintage pieces that you can hold on to for a long time.
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You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity in the language. The gap released something in me, and in the writing, which made it possible for the protagonist to think thoughts I had never myself thought.
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I want to be strong. I want to be able to hit people. I want people to be able to bounce off me. When I go out there and play, I play to intimidate people. If someone gets hit down by me, they're going to think twice about coming near me again.
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Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.
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I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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History was a living thing with an endless supply of stories, of lessons to apply to the present of one’s own life.
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I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.
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Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.
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If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.
