Steven Pinker Quotes

As individual people, embedded in our daily lives, of course we're interested in what makes one person different from another. We've got to hire one person and not another, marry one person and not another.

Steven Pinker

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I love acting. I just love it. It's in my bones.

Andrew Lincoln

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For my part, if I'm working while flying, I'm often a bit relieved to be forced to shut down the computer on final descent. But I guess I'm a slacker.

Meghan Daum

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There are great advantages of making things on the independent market. There's freedom and control there, and kind of a cleanness to the process that I like.

Jeff Nichols

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Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I'm very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish.

Steve Ballmer

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My characters all have issues, but I don't see that as weird or abnormal because I think in real life there are very few bland, normal people.

Sophie Hannah

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I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

Sting

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I'm an orator, a raconteur.

Ron Shock

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So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.

Joseph Jarman

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I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

Dolly Parton

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I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.

Devon Bostick

ThinkWantActorAlwaysAudition

It takes skill to sing bad and dance bad, because there's a certain amount of unawareness that people have when they can't sing and they can't dance, so I have to say that it is a challenge!

Annaleigh Ashford

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Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

William Gilmore Simms

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