Steven Pinker (Steven Arthur Pinker) Quotes

One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.

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• I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.

  

  Maluma
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• I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.

  

  Maisie Williams
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• I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
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• Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the character and what they want to show to the world, and what they are feeling at that time.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
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• I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
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• I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.

  

  Yuji Horii
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• I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

  

  Kate Smith
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• Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
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• I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
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• I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.

  

  Hans Kung
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• Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.

  

  Laetitia Casta
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• I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.

  

  Fetty Wap
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• I've never been one to want to be the center of attention and be put up on stages every night. That's just not really my personality. I'm comfortable with it now, but my real passion is being creative.

  

  Flume
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• This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.

  

  Fat Joe
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• All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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• During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
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• I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

  

  Calvin Klein
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• Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
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• I was around nine when a babysitter snuck 'Who's Next' onto the turntable. The parents were gone. The windows shook. The shelves were rattling. Rock & roll. That began an exploration into music that had soul, rebellion, aggression, affection.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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• If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.

  

  Garry Trudeau
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• Services are the present and future development trend for enterprise software. We've all agreed to speak the lingua franca of services. This is immensely important to customers; just as HTML enabled the explosion of the Web, SOA is doing the same for business applications.

  

  Andrew Leigh
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• You always have to know when to bow out. You bow out while you are on top.

  

  L.A. Reid
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• One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.

  

  Steven Pinker
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