Edzard Ernst Quotes
What I vehemently disagreed with was the implication that, simply because pharmaceuticals often have serious side effects, the risks of alternative medicine should be spared scrutiny. This seemed to me to be a total non sequitur.
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It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.
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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
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Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
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I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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You're never going to hear me say, 'Well, I've been critical of Obama five times, so now I need to be critical of McCain five times.' That is a false equivalence, and that's what I think is wrong with journalism.
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Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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I'm a strong fighter, I'm a fighter who can adapt to my surroundings.
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I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
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I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.
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When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.
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When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.
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When I wake up I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie! That's why I sleep alone. But the funny thing is that I'm very impeccable and clean before I go to bed. It's just like right before I'm going out.
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I think if you’re a manager you’re basically a talent spotter. That’s what you are. You also need to allow people to develop their talents.
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Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
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There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise.
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What I vehemently disagreed with was the implication that, simply because pharmaceuticals often have serious side effects, the risks of alternative medicine should be spared scrutiny. This seemed to me to be a total non sequitur.
