#ted

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#arts #believe #confusion #elite #endeavor

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage? ↗

— Steven Pinker

#baggage #down #emotional #empirical #how

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one. ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#because #day #easy #find #hunt

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#bad #certainly #created #cricket #earth

If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#court #impartial #international #milosevic #proper

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#america #court #criminal #get #hundreds

While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#detested #ever #known #most #most powerful

A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer. ↗

— Billie Piper

#confident #felt #film #hated #heaven

I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things. ↗

— Billie Piper

#find #friend #i #like #little

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#born #character #created #creation #death