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You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.


Steven Pinker

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STEVEN PRESSFIELD I'm very fond of the British cinema. I'm a big fan of Martin Campbell and Daniel Craig. I ac...
STEVEN BAUER The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industr...
STEVEN LEVY I think I look really weird with short hair. So I figured if I've got a mustache, I think it loo...
STEVEN ADAMS The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity,...
STEVEN COJOCARU Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street,...
STEVEN SEAGAL No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our ow...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by ...
STEVEN SINOFSKY Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get...
STEVEN COJOCARU Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their ...
STEVEN BIKO When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching...
STEVEN WRIGHT Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare...
STEVEN RATTNER I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.
STEVEN WRIGHT Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...
STEVEN WRIGHT 'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is...
STEVEN SODERBERGH I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.
STEVEN CHU Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies o...
STEVEN SPIELBERG The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded wit...
STEVEN BOCHCO I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your who...
STEVEN COJOCARU I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been chan...
STEVEN COJOCARU I mean, as long as it doesn't have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things ...
STEVEN TYLER Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...
STEVEN WRIGHT If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you str...
STEVEN WRIGHT A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space...
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