Ben Goldacre Quotes
Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it's fueled by mistrust and distraction and division. When we build barriers amongst ourselves, and we fight amongst ourselves, the virus thrives. But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we're actually all the same. We're all in this fight together.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.
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Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.
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Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.
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Creativity helps us realize that we don't have to understand everything. We can enjoy something -feel it and use it- without ever fully comprehending it.
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If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
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Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.
