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Steven Pinker Quotes

My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance.

Steven Pinker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Job Boss Appreciate Chair New Never

There was a strange happening during a performance of Elgar's 'Sea Pictures' at a concert hall in Bermuda tonight, when the man playing the triangle disappeared.

Ronnie Barker

Sea Man Performance Pictures Strange

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Health Country Boy Noise Streets

If you do every job like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, that's when you get noticed.

Mary Barra

Life Job Rest You Going Get

If someone leaves me a bad review, I briefly fantasize about pushing them down a well.

Lisa Hanawalt

Me Someone Bad Down Review Well

When I was 9, we moved to Osseo, Wis., where we owned a couple of hundred acres. My father was well respected in town.

Diane Hendricks

Father Where Well Town Moved Acres

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

Donna Leon

Famous Person Pleasure Take Being

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive.

Chow Yun-Fat

Me Camera Alive Working Front Keeps

Usually directors hire me because I'm what they are looking for. But once in a while, and it's very rare, they will hire me and then try to make me over.

Christopher Walken

Me Looking Will Try Over Rare

Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.

Bruno Dumont

Spiritual Body Cinema Mechanical

Civics isn't something where you learned - learn it for a couple weeks in high school; it is who we are. Americans defined themselves by their Constitution. That is what creates us. This is our heritage, and you must know our heritage.

Anthony Kennedy

School Constitution High School Learn

ISIS despises the Russian government for its support of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and so it's no surprise that ISIS began targeting Russia in 2015, around the same time that Russia first intervened in the Syrian civil war.

Peter Bergen

Time Government War Support Surprise

Democracy only has substance if there's the rule of law. That is, if people believe that the votes are going to be counted, and they are counted. If they believe that there's a judiciary out there that will make sense of things if there's some challenge. If there isn't rule of law, people will be afraid to vote the way they want to vote.

Timothy D. Snyder

Challenge People Law Democracy Vote