Steven Pinker Quotes

I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's emotional buttons, and especially their negative emotional buttons. Because words soak up emotional connotations and are processed involuntarily by the listener, you can't will yourself not to treat the word in terms of what it means.

Steven Pinker

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WordsYourselfPeopleTreatNegative

Never lower your sight - always look at people at eye-level.

Joanne Liu

PeopleLookSightNeverAlwaysYour

Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.

Jeremy Lin

CollegeStereotypesOutComingGoing

Dating has taught me what I want and don't want, who I am, and who I want to be.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

DatingI AmMeWantWhoTaught

My whole life, as an adult as well, I've been attracted to stories about young people. This period of time is so fertile - there's a million things that are happening, a million firsts, and to be able to witness that and record that is a privilege.

Jenny Han

LifeTimePeopleYoungPrivilege

The people at MTV are encouraged to be very confrontational and declarative about their tastes.

John Seabrook

PeopleMTVVeryAboutTastes

If I was a carpenter, and I was trying to maintain my father's musical legacy, then I guess it would be a burden because it wouldn't be natural to me to be dealing in music when my natural ability is in woodwork or whatever. But because my natural talent is also music, it kind of makes it much easier.

Stephen Marley

FatherMusicTalentMeLegacyKind

If every song is in the past tense, that's a drag, so you have to predict the future.

Ry Cooder

FuturePastSongYouPredictDrag

My earliest memory from childhood is of fishing with my father. And I remember vividly we were in a store, and we were buying a pup tent to go on our first camping trip.

David Suzuki

FatherChildhoodFishingMemoryGo

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

Chris Pine

PeopleControlEnergyThinkHuman

At 15, I refereed my first match, and I was training at my dad's school even prior to that, so the only thing that I was concerned about - I guess the only thing that made me reluctant and was the reason I was in L.A. and the reason I went to acting school - was I thought maybe I wasn't big enough - physically big enough - to compete with WWE.

Cody Rhodes

TrainingSchoolMeThoughtActing

For the most part, rock fans don't go and buy CDs any more, very rarely. It's pretty much about downloads and streaming.

Scott Weiland

GoRockMoreBuyPrettyFans

I definitely had very strong male figures in my life, who, when I look back, clearly laid the foundations to who I am.

Justin Kurzel

LifeI AmStrongMy LifeLookBack

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