Cathy O'Neil (Catherine "Cathy" Helen O'Neil) Quotes

I don't think anybody's ever notified that they were sentenced to an extra two years because their recidivism score had been high, or notified that this beat cop happened to be in their neighborhood checking people's pockets for pot because of a predictive policing algorithm. That's just not how it works.

Cathy O'Neil

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• People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
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• I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.

  

  Otis Rush
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• A lot of people don't know that I had a special appearance in 'Keratam'; that was my first Telugu film. I only shot for four to five days. When they called me, I said, 'I can't give 60 days for a movie. If you have something for one week or 10 days, then I can accommodate.'

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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• People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.

  

  Gail Porter
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• People love gentle larceny.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
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• Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals.

  

  Barry Larkin
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• I'm a lot more productive in an actual office. I love being around our other editors, and going there every day alleviates some of the guilt that I think many self-employed people feel when you know you could always be working from your laptop at home. I feel so relaxed there, while completely engaged and inspired.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
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• Maybe in the future, you'll be able to understand what I'm saying. I'm going more for an atmospheric vibe in my songs. And I really don't want to ruin the illusions people may create for themselves.

  

  Washed Out
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• I find in film acting that however many years you have done it for, you can feel totally relaxed and at ease with the people around you, absolutely wonderful, then roll camera and a little part of you goes, 'Ugh'. It is learning how to manage that.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
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• There is nothing better than being out there when the game is on the line; only now, I get to see what my players will do. How will they react? Retirement is fine for some people, but I got bored. I'm used to more of a fast-paced life.

  

  Larry Bird
  • People
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• Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
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• Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

  

  Deborah Bull
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• Cybercrime is becoming everything in crime. Again, because people have connected their entire lives to the Internet, that's where those who want to steal money or hurt kids or defraud go. So it's an epidemic for reasons that make sense.

  

  James Comey
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• They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
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• I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?

  

  David Tang
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  • Mind
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• I believe that we're all here for a purpose and that one of my biggest ones is to help people understand that they're beautiful.

  

  Ashley Graham
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• I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Now admittedly, our job is partly just to make you boogie, just make you want to dance. Part of our job is to take you on a little voyage, tell you a story.

  

  David Crosby The Byrds
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• They could not love anymore, they thought, just drink and pour coffee and track people down in the rain. They were living frigidly, as if in a cone of frost.

  

  Daniel Handler
  • People
  • Rain
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• You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that.

  

  Kathryn Bigelow
  • Work
  • Universe

• If it's one thing we do really well as a company, it's that we take big change slowly and deliberately and bring the community along with us.

  

  Kevin Systrom
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• To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • Writing
  • Innocent
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• I don't think anybody's ever notified that they were sentenced to an extra two years because their recidivism score had been high, or notified that this beat cop happened to be in their neighborhood checking people's pockets for pot because of a predictive policing algorithm. That's just not how it works.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • People
  • Beats
  • Neighborhood