Steven Pinker Quotes

Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts - all of this made commerce more appealing than plunder.

Steven Pinker

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RoadsFinancialBetterMoreKingdom

The Singh Brothers are good. I've actually known them for a long time.

Jinder Mahal

GoodTimeLongLong TimeBrothers

I never shot on sets, but if I was traveling somewhere or on location, I would always have my camera, and I'd always be - it's that kind of fly on the wall approach to photography, though. I don't engage the subject. I like to sneak around, skulk about in the dark.

Jessica Lange

FlyCameraPhotographyDarkWall

There is nothing wrong with my heart except for wanting a peaceful world.

Jeremy Corbyn

HeartWorldPeacefulWrongNothing

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

Andre Maurois

SmileSelf-ConfidenceMoreEveryone

When your name is on the marquee, you either get the glory or you get the hits.

Meat Loaf

NameYouGloryGetYourMarquee

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

Maxine Hong Kingston

WritingBeenMakingStoriesBefore

Even after I won the Oscar, my phone did not ring. No one called me to fund films or offer projects.

Roger Ross Williams

MePhoneRingOfferEvenDid

This was the invention of modern American philanthropy as we know it. The idea of systematizing giving to achieve human progress was the true innovation of John D. Rockefeller, and ultimately the Rockefeller Foundation's legacy.

Judith Rodin

InnovationProgressLegacyFoundation

Momma was the important woman in our home. She never let me forget that she was boss. I was always in the shadow. Every time I tried to step out on my own, I was in trouble with her.

Jayne Mansfield

HomeTimeWomanShadowBossStep

In hindsight, everything in my life looks a little rosy. But the reality is that with, say, 'Swingers,' when we finished, it was considered a total failure.

Doug Liman

LifeFailureRealityMy LifeLooks

'Piku' was driven by subtleties. Most films come with the padding of the sound, the visual, the drama.

Deepika Padukone

DramaSoundDrivenVisualComeMost

Yeah, well that's the best thing about it, I think, is knowing kids and kids getting mental when they know you're in it. Any kid you meet and anyone I know tells the kid you're in it and they get short of breath.

David Thewlis

BestThinkShortYouKnowMeet

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