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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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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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'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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With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.
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And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
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Heroism in a bad cause.
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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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Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
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Often what is deeply offensive to Chinese-Americans that they are really well-represented in medicine, and yet on all these doctors' shows you hardly see any Chinese-American faces.
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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.
