Steven Pinker Quotes

If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important.

Steven Pinker

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LiveDeathPeopleViolenceYouLook

Everyone wants the same thing in this band, so we definitely respect each other. I mean, all of us have had hit songs, so it's a band full of people who really know what they're talking about, so you have to respect that even when you think something you have might be great, and they go, 'Man, it's not as great as you think it is.'

Matthew Ramsey

RespectGreatManPeopleThinkYou

That's the hardest thing about being a mom. You want to be cool, and you want them to like you all the time, but you can't always have that. You're gonna have times where you have to say no, and you won't be the most popular person in the house.

Martina McBride

TimeCoolMomYouHousePerson

I don't ever take anything for granted. I know... people would kill for the opportunity to play on festival stages and whatnot.

Mija

OpportunityPeoplePlayKnowTake

I'm a bit of a contrarian, so I like the idea of going on stage without makeup, without the hair being done, in the jeans and shirt I've been wearing all day. At first that was an issue, because I didn't want to be disrespectful.

Lou Doillon

DayHairMakeupDoneWantFirst

God doesn't love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn't want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

Joyce Meyer

WorkLoveGodTimeMeFace

People will always try to change you. They will always want you to be who they want you to be. That's fine because I'll always be exactly who I want to be.

Draymond Green

ChangePeopleYouWantWillTry

After so long being thin, it was terrifying being heavier. But I am a naturally curvy Hispanic girl. I don't deprive myself.

Demi Lovato

GirlMyselfI AmLongHispanicThin

I just love a girl in a hat. It's really sexy.

Clemence Poesy

LoveGirlHatSexyJustReally

I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.

Bob Hoskins

MenShortFatHistoricalHorrible

I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.

Annie Lennox

ChildrenBestWomanWantUnderstand

Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.

Anthony Hecht

AgeChildrenWorldEarlyKnowBeing

I have a weird thing - if I can't see where all the walls in my house are, I get a little bit freaked out. I think New York has Stockholm Syndrome'd my sense of space and what a house should be.

William Jackson Harper

WallsNew YorkSpaceThinkWeird

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