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.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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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.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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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.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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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.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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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.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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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.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.
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There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.
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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.
