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Steven Pinker Quotes

You can't hear a word and just hear it as raw sound; it always evokes an associated meaning and emotion in the brain.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Brain Meaning You Sound Emotion Raw

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

John Dos Passos

Man Ugly Society Possible Savage

London and its people are famed for their incredible indifference to one another, but it's actually a charade that requires some effort to maintain.

Effort People London Indifference

I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

Stephen Hawking

Work Me Research Disability Boring

I'll do some running with the dogs, ride a bike; if I go to gym it's usually for cardio. I don't do weights as much; every once in while, I throw in some pushups and do leg exercises to strengthen my legs.

Martina Navratilova

Ride Bike Gym Go Legs Dogs

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Slow Enough Long Matter Photographer

When you're in New York, people don't say, 'We're happy you came to New York.' In D.C., people thank you for coming here and bringing art here.

Art New York Happy People Thank You

Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.

Great Art Mistakes Decisions Moments

The Lord, Jesus Christ, is our perfect example of patience.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Patience Perfect Jesus Christ Lord

I actually do bits of my writing in sort of incidental spaces - when I'm traveling on the Tube or on a bus. More often than not, it's a reaction to how you feel about something, and if you're sitting down and concentrating on, 'I must write something,' then you can't have a truthful reaction.

Writing Feel You Down Sitting Write

I have friends who are writers who have had movies made of their books, and they are almost uniformly horrified about what's been done - or, at least, dissatisfied.

Friends Done Movies Been Almost Who

I lived in an apartment near Wrigley Field.

Apartment Lived Field Near Wrigley

The reason for the blockade on Gaza was not to punish the Palestinians but to continue to delegitimize Hamas.

Reason Continue Punish Gaza Hamas

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