James Randi Quotes
The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.
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I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.
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You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.
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I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.
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I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.
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Several hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs live in slums known as refugee camps in Gaza, Judea, and Somalia. Attempts by Israel to rehabilitate and oust them have been defeated by Arab objections. Nor has their fate been any better in Arab states.
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My parents realized the dangers of raising a daughter in a social, political, and legal climate that was growing increasingly oppressive toward women and girls. Although they fled to London when I was just three weeks old, the challenges facing women's rights in Iran became ingrained in my social consciousness.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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My priorities are to make sure we get the prescription drug bill, that we fund the research in NIH adequately, and that we fund the Center for Disease Control adequately.
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Having done 'M. Butterfly,' I'm conscious of the choices women make with their clothes and makeup on screen.
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A lot of times they don't want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should pass it on.
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The 'problem lies' are the half-dozen or so falsehoods we hear every day that can lead us down the wrong path in our careers, change how we do business, or dramatically influence our personal lives.
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Acting is a form of confusion.
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I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.
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Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
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Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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The lion's share of what I listened to in the Eighties, what really affected me, was coming from Britain.
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I learned my lesson early in my career that it's not helpful to go and look at what other people's opinions are.
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The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.
