Marcia Angell Quotes
There's a certain libertarian right-wing view that there should be no FDA, that people can decide for themselves whether medicines are safe and effective. That's nonsense. Most people don't have the expertise or the resources to mount a proper study to find out whether a treatment is safe or effective.Marcia Angell
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
Sam Graves -
It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
Carice van Houten -
People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
Karen Allen -
Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.
Palaniappan Chidambaram -
Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
Irene Rosenfeld -
I'm not the type of person that is forced.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster -
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
Mahmoud Darwish -
The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
Ibrahim Babangida -
I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
Jack Dee -
Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.
Earl Nightingale -
Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
H. Rap Brown
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
Adam Mansbach -
If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
Calvin Johnson -
My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody.
Ziggy Marley -
When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
Oprah Winfrey
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I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.
Alan Davies -
As a bandleader, I try to pass on the same family values that I grew up with: help people, hang on to your sense of humour, be tolerant, and keep your judgments to yourself.
Jools Holland -
I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music.
Dennis Brown -
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
Barry Ritholtz -
There's a certain libertarian right-wing view that there should be no FDA, that people can decide for themselves whether medicines are safe and effective. That's nonsense. Most people don't have the expertise or the resources to mount a proper study to find out whether a treatment is safe or effective.
Marcia Angell