Steven Pinker Quotes

Why is it surprising that scientists might have long hair and wear cowboy boots? In fields like neuroscience, where the events you are recording are so minute, I suspect scientists cultivate a boring, reliable image. A scientist with a reputation for flamboyance might be suspect.

Steven Pinker

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I miss the cast and crew of 'Supernatural' immensely. I know it's a cliche to say your cast and crew are like your family, but it's really the case there.

Jim Beaver

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Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.

John Michael Hayes

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I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that?

Michael Ealy

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I learned how to lend money by cleaning up the messes of others who had made loans before me.

John Stumpf

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I've always been a private person, and I've always valued my private life.

Amber Heard

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I acknowledge the right of the authorities and the press to satisfy themselves as to whether I am the anthrax mailer. This does not, however, give them the right to smear me and gratuitously make a wasteland of my life in the process. I will not be railroaded.

Steven Hatfill

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The 'Moonlighting' tension of the couple that obviously never can get together, there's an innate sort of fun and tension in that.

Jason Katims

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When you're writing something to direct, you just write exactly what you're going to do. You don't have to write it in a way for other people to understand or interpret.

Jon Watts

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What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.

Douglas Southall Freeman

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As a director, you're a bit of a dictator. But I feel that you're a better director if you're open to other people's ideas. It means that it's tougher: you have to be in a choosing process; you have to put the ego aside. As long as everybody's aiming in the same direction... I'm open to my main partners in the film crew.

Denis Villeneuve

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I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Conrad Hall

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I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.

Bob Woodward

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