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Steven Pinker Quotes

Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual.

Steven Pinker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Great Style Language Logic Tradition

The idea of cross-border payments is going to completely go away... Our vision is for there to be no distinction between international and domestic payments.

Jeremy Allaire

Vision Go Away Going Idea Go Away

I spend all day in museums. I even eat my lunch in the museum, and I take a nap for one hour there.

John Gokongwei

Day Lunch Museum Nap Museums Eat

I'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present.

Melanie Fiona

Girl Together Soul Past Present Old

I'm a striker, and I can only score if the ball gets to me.

Mauro Icardi

Me I Can Ball Score Only Gets

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

Angela Carter

Dinner Rules Table Now Dinner Table

Artemisinin... is a true gift from old Chinese medicine. But this is not the only instance in which the wisdom of Chinese medicine has borne fruit.

Tu Youyou

Wisdom Fruit Medicine Gift True Old

When I was growing up, my mom didn't let me watch a lot of TV. She said I couldn't watch 'Friends' or that era of sitcoms.

Ross Butler

Me Mom Growing Up Friends Growing

Eminem has been someone that I've always considered the greatest ever, to ever do it. You know what I mean? In every aspect, the storytelling abilities, lyrical ability, honesty. You can hear it in my music that I'm heavily influenced by that.

Joyner Lucas

Music Honesty Someone You Know Mean

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

Joyce Meyer

Think Worry You Know Over Something

Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, they had this unconventional beauty, this amazing charisma.

Josephine de La Baume

Beauty Amazing Unconventional Lauren

I don't go out there and put on any sort of front for people. If I'm in a good mood, I appear in a good mood on TV, and if I'm in a bad mood, I just go out there and look like I'm in a bad mood.

Dean Ambrose

Good People Look Bad Go Mood

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

Cornelia Funke

Children Story You Place Earth Go