Steven Pinker Quotes

I don't think language could have evolved if it was the only distinctive trait. It goes hand in hand with our ability to develop tools and technologies, and also with the fact that we cooperate with nonrelatives.

Steven Pinker

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ThinkLanguageToolsHandAbility

I don't think you can be a comic book fan and not hate change.

Jim Lee

ChangeHateBookThinkYouFan

In the case of 'Goon Squad,' which sold slowly for a long time despite the good reviews, those 'best of 2010' lists were pivotal, and made the book really sell.

Jennifer Egan

GoodTimeBestBookLongLong Time

The most important thing I can say is to make music that moves you. Don't try and chase what's on the radio or what you think people want to hear.

Matthew Ramsey

MusicPeopleThinkYouI CanWant

It was painful, but sometimes you must have these painful moments where you tear yourself away from something that isn't working.

Jeffrey Eugenides

YourselfMomentsYouSometimesWhere

It's not until they tell you you're going to die soon that you realise how short life is.

Stefan Karl Stefansson

LifeShortDieYouTellGoing

Very early, I thought I would go into music, but I was aware that it would bring a set of obstacles I didn't find particularly attractive. Also, I'm not a great performer! For a while, I thought I would do something in landscape gardening. But it was always fashion for me.

Stella McCartney

MusicGreatGardeningMeFashion

There's a lot of ways that white women undermine women of color, and black women in particular.

Robin DiAngelo

WomenColorBlackWhiteUndermine

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

Ronald Reagan

VacationInsuranceUnemployment

I'm enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It's just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that tyranny of biology.

Roseanne Barr

LifeGreatYourselfGrowMy Life

Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.

Mary Oliver

CareTake CareTakeMustHouses

Labor, no matter how inexpensive, will become a less important asset for growth and employment expansion, with labor-intensive, process-oriented manufacturing becoming a less effective way for early-stage developing countries to enter the global economy.

Michael Spence

GrowthLaborImportantWayBecome

There's a big difference to me between the people who are famous and just accept the fact that it comes with the territory of what they do, and the people who actively seek it out, who intentionally put themselves in the position of being on camera and being famous.

Jon Glaser

PeopleMeFamousCameraAcceptOut

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