Martin Gardner Quotes
Debunking bad science should be constant obligation of the science community, even if it takes time away from serious research or seems to be a losing battle. One takes comfort from the fact there is no Gresham's laws in science. In the long run, good science drives out bad.
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!
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When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
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The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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I don't really try to tell people whether they should fight. It's definitely not for everybody.
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I still say if the ball is there to be won I will go for it, whether with my head or whatever, and if it means us scoring or stopping a goal, I won't think twice.
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You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
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Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade.
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Doing business with Cuba is good for America.
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Debunking bad science should be constant obligation of the science community, even if it takes time away from serious research or seems to be a losing battle. One takes comfort from the fact there is no Gresham's laws in science. In the long run, good science drives out bad.
