#tell

Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized. ↗

— Nicholas Pileggi

#get #goes #jail #make #me

When I go on holiday and people ask me what I do, I tell them I do some internet stuff and I've done a couple of books and I hope they just leave it at that. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#books #couple #done #go #holiday

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#explanation #genetics #intellectuals #invokes #mind

My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.' ↗

— Pink

#always #because #coming #dad #friends

The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people. ↗

— Pink

#being #being honest #ever #feel #had

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#discoveries #exploring #fearful #honest #intellectual

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

Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it. ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#i #i do #same #telling #way

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#critical #i #i think #intelligence #intend

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#boy #go #go away #good #i