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Steven Pinker Quotes

Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: September 18, 1954

Topics

Today Christian Party Enemy Strange

Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.

Me Jokes Started Monologues His

I remember when Meryl Streep did an ad for American Express, the press harassed her.

Andie MacDowell

American Remember Her Press Did Ad

If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!

Myself Fire House More Out Take

Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.

God Heart Spiritual Mind Ideas Try

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

Mind Buildings Want Monuments Become

Have you noticed the people most likely to be up in arms about governments apparently spying on us tend to be the most non-private people you know? The people launching petitions and wailing about Big Brother and data collection are most likely to be the most constant self-presenters.

Brother People Data You Know Big

I didn't really realize that writing... would be fun and people would pay you to do it. Being an astronaut is a glory profession, and so is writing, in a way.

Fun People Writing You Glory Way

I have always been interested in garbage: What it says about us. What in there embarrasses us, and what we can't bear to part with. Where it goes and how much of it there is. How it endures. What it might be like to work with it every day.

Work Day Every Day Bear Garbage Us

I find it quite fascinating to see how the body works.

Body Find See Quite How Works

All of imagination - everything that we think, we feel, we sense - comes through the human brain. And once we create new patterns in this brain, once we shape the brain in a new way, it never returns to its original shape.

Imagination Brain Think Feel Create

Basically, I start my morning off with a Bustelo coffee made in a mocha pot - the Bialetti. I warm some milk on the side, on my stove, and I add one teaspoon or half a teaspoon of real sugar. I have two of these every morning. Even when I was pregnant.

Morning Coffee Start Warm Sugar Two

I was the girl who got out of my athletic requirement by managing the boys' sports teams. Which is pretty ingenious, because when I was a sophomore, I got a prom date out of it. That was really strong planning on my part.

Girl Sports Strong Planning Out Got

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