Steven Pinker Quotes

I think that if you were to probe a lot of people's religious opinions, they would not be as religious as the numbers would suggest.

Steven Pinker

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PeopleThinkOpinionsYouNumbers

We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.

Joe Manchin

BestMediocrityAcceptPolitician

If you dig it, do it. If you really dig it, do it twice.

Jim Croce

YouTwiceDigReally

To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up.

Michael Franti

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It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

Amanda Seyfried

MeWorldFakeFeelPlayBig

Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence. I make movies, and in Hollywood, that's career suicide.

Stephen Baldwin

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Every dollar of SNAP benefits generates $1.84 in the economy in terms of economic activity. If people are able to buy a little more in the grocery store, someone has to stock it, package it, shelve it, process it, ship it. All of those are jobs. It's the most direct stimulus you can get in the economy during these tough times.

Tom Vilsack

Tough TimesPeopleToughShipYou

I don't have a mortgage, I don't have a wife and I don't have kids, so I'm quite happy bumbling along.

Rory McCann

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I never really endeavored to hide anything. But there were times I chose not to relegate my history to the back page of a magazine, which to me is sort of akin to putting your biography on a bathroom wall.

Matt Bomer

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The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it.

Mary Quant

PeoplePowerfulReactionWhoHated

I wanted to write a very simple story about a boy, a wolf, a girl, a bear and a forest, so I thought I might set it in the past. I didn't realise that it went back to when I was 10: I used to love the Stone Age when I was a kid and wanted to live in it, and I got rid of my bed and slept on the floor, but I didn't remember it.

Michelle Paver

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As a feminist of Egyptian and Muslim descent, my life's work has been informed by the belief that religion and culture must never be used to justify the subjugation of women.

Mona Eltahawy

LifeWorkWomenCultureReligion

And for me, it's been, not only where I learned, but the people that I met there. Most of the people that I work with are guys that, one way or another, have been associated with the university.

Jon Secada

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