Steven Pinker Quotes

Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics is about the relation of words to reality - the way that speakers commit themselves to a shared understanding of the truth, and the way their thoughts are anchored to things and situations in the world.

Steven Pinker

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TruthWordsThoughtsWorldReality

They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.

Matthew Modine

PeopleMediaNewsAfricaUpWhere

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

Stephane Mallarme

WordsPoetryIdeasYouPoemMake

By pushing children and wanting quick success, parents are producing followers, not leaders.

Sophie B. Hawkins

SuccessChildrenParentsQuick

There's a lot of crappy music that people like, you know, all over the world, and Norway is definitely not an exception.

Sondre Lerche

MusicPeopleWorldYouKnowOver

Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine.

Steven Van Zandt

GoodArtBestWordsFunPeople

Never have a club in your bag that you're afraid to hit.

Tom Kite

BagYouNeverAfraidClubYour

Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries.

Roy Ayers

SoulBoundariesRacialGeographical

History proves that most writers get forgotten anyway. That's very likely to happen to my books, and if I'm extremely lucky, maybe one of my books will survive.

Michel Faber

HistorySurviveWillLuckyHappen

I hope that the image of gene therapy is changing. It seems to be.

Liz Parrish

HopeTherapyImageSeemsChanging

Scheduling me is not easy, as most people know, because once I start, I don't stop.

Donna Karan

PeopleMeStartEasyStopKnow

Happy for America, happy for Europe, perhaps for the world when, on the delivery of Cornwallis's sword to the illustrious, the immortal Washington, or rather by his order, to the brave Lincoln, the sun of Liberty and Independence burst through a sable cloud, and his benign influence was, almost instantaneously, felt in our remotest corners!

Deborah Sampson

HappySunBraveWorldIndependence

Nelson was locked up on Robben Island, and wives like me had been warned we would bring our husbands home as corpses from that place. But I always believed he would be released. It was my duty to have a home ready for us.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

HomeMeReadyPlaceIslandDuty

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