Hans Rosling Quotes
Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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I never was a very good singer.
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Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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You reach a point where you don't work for money.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still young and can have the bright future they deserve.
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With the mega – fame came the mega – downfall – you know, with the press and everything – and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.
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It was very hard for me as a kid to get through as a footballer in Uruguay.
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No one wants to be the kid who allies with the weird kid.
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Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. The shame doesn't even belong to us, but we still experience it because we're a part of the African race. If it happened to one, it happened to all. We carry that burden.
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The channels of human mental development... are circuitous and variable. Rather than specify a single trait, human genes prescribe the capacity to develop a certain array of traits.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
