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Noam Chomsky Quotes

I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can't explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?

Noam Chomsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 7, 1928

Topics

Think Why Human Explain Turn Left

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

Joanna Lumley

Three Race Sound See British Really

I always think that there's a weight of prejudice from the past that gay people perhaps carry around with them. Even if it doesn't exist so much around them, they still have a feeling of being excluded, and perceived prejudice is almost as unsettling as actual prejudice.

Andrew Haigh

Past People Think Feeling Gay Carry

With 'Sweetback,' I just put it together a little bit at a time. I didn't do it on anybody's grant. I did it like any other young executive - by cheating and stealing!

Melvin Van Peebles

Time Together Cheating Young Little

Too many young people graduate laden with debts that take years, if not decades, to pay off.

Robert Reich

People Young Years Young People Pay

Floods, droughts, and natural disasters are a fact of life for farmers, ranchers, and foresters. They have persevered in the past, and they will adapt in the future - with the assistance of the scientists and experts at USDA.

Sonny Perdue

Life Future Past Adapt Will Farmers

There is no 'I.' That's an illusion we've got to get beyond.

Tom Shadyac

Illusion Beyond Got Get

You have to really understand that although certain memories or stories make you sad, you are not sad. Pull yourself out from that emotion and remember that.

Rupi Kaur

Memories Sad Yourself Remember You

I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to test each sentence over and over to be sure that it's right, that I haven't introduced some element that isn't English.

Louis Begley

I Am Writing Think Language Test

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

Louis Pasteur

Science Tree Together Fruit Name

I never thought I would tweet - I thought it was too dangerous.

Lloyd Blankfein

Thought Dangerous Never Would Tweet

I have been making music since I was a kid. I have written music since I was, like, seven or eight. I was in the studio at 9, 10. So I've had a lot of practice over a lot of years.

Joyner Lucas

Music Practice Kid Over Years Been

I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for.

Jasper Carrott

Today I Am DJ You Will Radio