Steven Pinker Quotes

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.

Steven Pinker

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I dyed my hair blonde in that movie, so my head doesn't match my grill.

Joe Pesci

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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 was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.

John Lydon

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I've been to location shoots in Mexico before, and everyone ends up getting sick.

Ann Rutherford

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Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything.

Steve Albini

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'Saturday Night Live' was like a university for funny.

Tracy Morgan

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You can look at history of these things, and Social Security wasn't devised to be a system that supported you for a 30-year retirement after a 25-year career... So there will be things that, you know, the retirement age has to be changed, maybe some of the benefits have to be affected, maybe some of the inflation adjustments have to be revised.

Lloyd Blankfein

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There's a chunk of myself in every part I play.

Jay Baruchel

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I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.

Christine McVie

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WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.

Peter T. King

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We don't have sports tickets, we don't have corporate jets. We don't have stadiums named after us.

Richard Kinder

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I make napkins talk in restaurants, socks talk on car journeys. There is an awful lot of puppetry going on in the house.

Nina Conti

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