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.

James Randi

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• When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Bad
  • Actor
  • First

• 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.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • People
  • Day
  • Brain

• I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Training

• 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.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Children
  • You
  • Humility

• 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.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Up
  • Different
  • Words

• 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.

  

  Lake Bell
  • People
  • Funny
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Live
  • Better
  • Fate

• 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.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Women
  • Parents
  • Political

• A bad peace is even worse than war.

  

  Tacitus
  • War
  • Bad
  • Peace

• 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.

  

  Ralph Regula
  • Control
  • Drug
  • Research

• Having done 'M. Butterfly,' I'm conscious of the choices women make with their clothes and makeup on screen.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Women
  • Done
  • Choices

• 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.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Good
  • Done
  • Want

• 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.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Business
  • Change
  • Day

• Acting is a form of confusion.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Acting
  • Form
  • Confusion

• I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Feeling
  • Ideas
  • Walking

• 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.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Bad
  • Movies

• Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Want
  • Everyone
  • Invest

• If a candidate for president said he believed that space aliens dwell among us, would that affect your willingness to vote for him? Personally, I might not disqualify him out of hand; one out of three Americans believe we have had Visitors and, hey, who knows? But I would certainly want to ask a few questions.

  

  Bill Keller
  • Believe
  • Space
  • Hand

• We're not like the distance guys. I have a very simple approach. I don't overcomplicate. People ask me, are you doing 42 steps, 44 steps for 100 metres? I don't know.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • Simple
  • Distance

• I am not against standardized tests. There are tests and tests and tests, and, to simplify, the ones I favor are criterion-referenced tests of skills, aligned with the curriculum. Social and emotional skills are important but skills are too. I find it heartbreaking that this is so often seen as an either-or choice. To get to the richness of studying literature, for example, you must first be an adept and confident reader. Whether you are is something a good test can measure.

  

  Nicholas Lemann
  • Skills
  • Tests
  • Curriculum

• Even if nobody cared, I'm still gonna make music.

  

  Brittany Howard
  • Music

• The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.

  

  James Randi