A. W. F. Edwards Quotes

What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.

A. W. F. Edwards

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• The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• My mom is awesome. She's really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three.

  

  Halsey
  • Mom
  • Memories
  • Awesome

• If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Work
  • Want
  • Accomplish

• Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Great
  • Love

• That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Time
  • Dark
  • Personality

• What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Great
  • Daily
  • Push

• As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?

  

  Fay Wray
  • Book
  • Advice
  • Same

• You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Music
  • Business
  • Know

• I have to forget in order to find peace in my soul and be able to forgive.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Soul
  • Peace
  • Forgive

• I really like using my Samsung (005930:KS) tablet. I previously used the Motorola Xoom for a while and liked that.

  

  Larry Page
  • Like
  • Really
  • While

• After my first video, I went out and had chicken noodle soup with my sister and manager. We were like, 'How rock n' roll are we? Celebrating the first video with chicken soup.'

  

  Fleur East
  • Rock
  • Sister
  • Soup

• Things happen for a reason, and the only thing you can do is at night time get on your knees and ask God for forgiveness for anything that you did that you didn't feel was right.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • God
  • Night

• I was able to promote a strong defense budget when it could have been cut a lot more severely.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Strong
  • More
  • Budget

• Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
  • History
  • Without
  • Defeat

• I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Wish
  • Proud
  • Write

• I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Beautiful
  • Poetry
  • Enjoy

• With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.

  

  Laura Marano
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• I definitely think religion is responsible for a lot of the evils of the world. I mean that's not really in debate. But at the same time, I think whatever gets you through the day, whatever helps you make sense of life I'm not gonna begrudge my grandmother with her rosary beads. It works for them. And at the end of the day, I don't claim to know the answer to anything.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• If you're going to miss 'em, miss 'em quick.

  

  George Duncan
  • Going
  • Quick

• Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Size

• That was a great time, the summer of '71 - I can't remember it, but I'll never forget it!

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • Great Time
  • Can't Remember
  • Foreget

• When people have their own money at stake, it's a lot easier to find and settle on practical, no-nonsense solutions to engineering problems than is ever the case in the complex and endless deliberations of a government bureaucracy.

  

  Robert Zubrin
  • Engineering
  • Solutions
  • Easier

• What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.

  

  A. W. F. Edwards