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.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Up
  • Women
  • Home

• I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Critics
  • Reach
  • Regardless

• 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.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Party
  • Become
  • Democrats

• The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Luck

• 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.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Good
  • Money
  • War

• 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.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Together
  • Humanity
  • Fight

• 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.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Want
  • Competition
  • Lose

• 'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Will
  • Sure
  • Glued

• 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.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Mother
  • Day
  • Air

• 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.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• 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.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Love
  • Success

• 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.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Culture
  • Enough
  • Resistance

• Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Need

• You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.

  

  Ted Baillieu
  • You
  • More
  • Build

• I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Love
  • Play
  • Superhero

• How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • World
  • Human
  • View

• In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Fly
  • Europe
  • Event

• I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Life
  • Think
  • Creative

• Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Shoulders
  • Fifty
  • Above

• 'The Descent,' 'Dog Soldiers,' those films, I've loved for years, and the tones of those.

  

  Matt Ryan
  • Dog

• While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.

  

  Allen Klein
  • Good
  • Why
  • Science

• We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Community

• I'm her protection! I don't care if it's in this world or the next. Just show me how to get where she is, and I'll be there for her. ~Stark

  

  P. C. Cast
  • World
  • She

• 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.

  

  Ben Goldacre
  • World
  • Knowledge