Ben Goldacre Quotes
When you prescribe a new drug, often you are prescribing something that has only been tested in a few thousand people for a very short period of time, perhaps only six months, and that's not long enough to know whether there are any medium- or long-term side effects.
Ben Goldacre
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Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
Damon Wayans
I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.
Vijender Singh
I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Gary Becker
I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
Vincent Cassel
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
A. J. Liebling
I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
Veruschka von Lehndorff
I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
Vanessa Kerry
I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
Rachel Cohn
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln
When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
Larry Mullen, Jr.
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I'm just basically a workaholic.
Rachelle Lefevre
Whatever you are, whatever gifts you end up getting, you’ll find that time will make those changes less scary as well.
Christie Craig
The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
Walter Russell Mead
Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
Zadie Smith
My family still lives in Chicago: my mother, my sister, my nephew, my family is there. So even though I am not living there, I feel very close to it, and I visit very often.
Lena Waithe
When you prescribe a new drug, often you are prescribing something that has only been tested in a few thousand people for a very short period of time, perhaps only six months, and that's not long enough to know whether there are any medium- or long-term side effects.
Ben Goldacre
