Steven Pinker Quotes

I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I like to have a significant number of academics watching my back.

Steven Pinker

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I spent some time, six months or so, ruminating about the characters before I sat down to write 'Faith'.

Jennifer Haigh

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A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.

Ani DiFranco

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It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.

Mike Gordon

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I have been blessed to have been working since I was 11. I think horror is an underrated genre. When done really well like in 'The Ruins', it pays homage to some of the stuff I really love in the '70s and incurs some of that energy the fanbase really wants to see.

Jonathan Tucker

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We are being held hostage by the people we elect.

Dede Gardner

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When I was broke, no one ever offered to buy me a beer. Now that I have quite a bit of money, everybody tries to buy me beers. Where were all these people back when I was in college and broke?

Chris Moneymaker

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Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

Aphra Behn

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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

William Wycherley

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My parents grew that small business from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees in three states. And sure, there was help along the way. But my parents took the risk. They stood up. And you better believe they built it.

Susana Martinez

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I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.

Peter James

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My favorite type of music to sing is country, and my favorite type of music to listen to is country.

Scotty McCreery

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I volunteer a lot of my time with an organization in New York called The Center for Children and Families.

Tyra Banks

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