Ben Goldacre Quotes
Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
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I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.
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No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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We've reinvented ourselves many, many, many times.
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1. If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
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The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.
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The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature.
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I've always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record.
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Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.
