Steven Pinker Quotes

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

Steven Pinker

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Less about politics, 'The Path to 9/11' focused on the emergence of radical Islamic terror as a clear and present American threat.

Andrew Breitbart

PathPoliticsPresentAmericanClear

It's pretty amazing to me that we have had a space shuttle program that's lasted for 30 years - for one space shuttle. That's quite an achievement.

John M. Grunsfeld

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Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.

Rob Walton

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One can always debate questions back and forth.

Robert Bourassa

QuestionsBackDebateAlwaysForth

My wife grew up loving country music, so I always run songs by her whether I wrote it or if somebody pitched it to me.

Rodney Atkins

MusicWifeMeLovingCountryRun

In life, with my friends, I don't see them as male or female; I just see them as people.

Ruth Bradley

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I've had the honor and the pleasure and gift of having known Elizabeth Taylor for a number of years. You know, you sit down with her, she slings hash, she sits there and cusses like a sailor, and she's hilarious.

Johnny Depp

GiftHonorYouDownKnowShe

When watching 'The Passion,' Jews and Christians are watching two entirely different films. For two hours, Christians watch their Savior tortured and killed. For the same two hours, Jews watch Jews arrange the killing and torture of the Christians' Savior.

Dennis Prager

PassionWatchingTwoSameWatch

My 'act' was schoolwork. I was your basic, garden-variety, ambitious, upwardly mobile, hard-working Jewish boy from Brooklyn. I was bound to go beyond my parents. It was simply the way things were.

Clive Davis

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I was just a young kid out of Mexico, Missouri, and then Kansas City, having an opportunity to play at the University of Nebraska, where I grew as a man.

Tyronn Lue

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During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. I literally spent hours each day reading God's word, meditating on scripture and praying. I intentionally spent a significant amount of time being still before God.

Rick Warren

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People eat the chicken, people eat the beef, they still say, 'Don't kill the fish.'

Nobu Matsuhisa

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