John Tukey Quotes
An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
Quotes to Explore
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.
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I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
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Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.
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Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age,' which is kind of what I did.
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Variation and natural selection would also afford a key to a multitude of geological facts otherwise wholly unaccounted for, as, for example, why there is generally an intimate connection between the living animals and plants of each great division of the globe and the extinct fauna and flora of the post-tertiary or tertiary formations of the same region...
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The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.
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I don't mind being stereotyped as angry - it's good to have a job.
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An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
