Steven Pinker Quotes

Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone's home.

Steven Pinker

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HomeBrainLanguageSomeoneSpeech

Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory.

Joan Rivers

MoreTelephoneChineseThanTaylor

Young adults are honest readers. They won't stay with a book unless they have a reason, so it has to move along.

Jesse Andrews

BookYoungReasonHonestStayMove

I am not in any way a conspiracy theorist and have no time for such nonsense.

John McAfee

TimeI AmWayNonsenseConspiracy

We need a free press. We must have it. It's vital.

John McCain

FreeNeedFree PressMustPress

In my life, I have met astonishingly good people.

Ann Patchett

LifeGoodPeopleGood PeopleMy Life

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

John Ruskin

TruthNeverPainfulMayWholeOnly

Sometimes you don't know the effect of words until you hear it used on you.

Mike Colter

WordsYouKnowSometimesUsedHear

I think one of the people that's done the most for the gay movement is Ellen DeGeneres.

LP

PeopleThinkGayDoneMovementMost

For many young men, joining in a radical movement is a way of feeling powerful, which is particularly intoxicating for men who feel their masculinity has been called into question, whether through victimisation or a failure to achieve the status that they feel they are entitled to.

Deeyah Khan

FailureMenFeelPowerfulAchieve

Life is just a bowl of cherries, don't take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love.

Bob Fosse

LifeLoveLiveLaughSeriousTake

I have a good sense of humour, and that's what kept me for the 30 years I was locked up.

Anthony Ray Hinton

GoodMeYearsHumourUpSense

I think I should go out and socialize more, meet more people. But I don't do that a lot.

Shaheer Sheikh

PeopleThinkGoMeetMoreOut

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