Austin Bradford Hill Quotes
All scientific work is incomplete – whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge. That does not confer upon us a freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have, or to postpone the action that it appears to demand at a given time.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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I'm so excited and honored to be part of 'Entertainment Tonight!' 'E.T.' was the show that started all the entertainment news, so I couldn't be more thrilled.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.
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When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
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I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don't think there's anybody out there that's doing a bigger or a better show than us.
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Pace, like everything else in writing, involves a trade-off. If you're not offering the reader a lot of action to keep her interested, you must offer something else in its stead. Slow pace is ideal for complex character development, detailed description, and nuances of style.
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I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.
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A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
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Where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes.
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Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.
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I've got a green card, so I can work there any time, but I hate reading about actors going to America, because it's not like that anymore.
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He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?
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There are various art forms we may or may not have talent for, may or may not have time for, and we may or may not be able to express ourselves in, but we ought to consider this fact-that whether we choose to be an environment or not, we are. We produce an environment other people have to live in. We should be conscious of the fact that this environment which we produce by our very 'being' can affect the people who live with us or work with us.
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All scientific work is incomplete – whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge. That does not confer upon us a freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have, or to postpone the action that it appears to demand at a given time.
