Michael Specter Quotes

There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they love Big Placebo.

Michael Specter

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LoveScienceProblemUpsetEveryone

'The Daily Show' was amazing because I learned so much.

Jessica Williams

DailyAmazingBecauseShowMuch

I love scoring - even in training.

Jermain Defoe

LoveTrainingScoringEvenI Love

I flow between modern and traditional jazz, between samba and choro - all maybe in a week's time.

Anat Cohen

TimeWeekJazzFlowModernBetween

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

Anatole Broyard

LoveLooking BackWaitLookingBack

Instead of being focused on teaching what we already know, we now have to be focused on creating new knowledge that is China-based, because it's absolutely clear that China is going to shift from a production economy to a knowledge economy.

John Quelch

KnowledgeCreatingNewKnowFocused

What Bernie Sanders is talking about, which is trying to get back to a more perfect democracy, is something that we support, too. We just think that the idea of... wishing the rules were different and then pretending they were is something which, unfortunately, probably would be disastrous from the standpoint of energy and climate.

Tom Steyer

SupportDemocracyEnergyThinkRules

I started cooking 30-something years ago. When I was 14, 15, I was a short-order cook in a snack bar. That was at a place called the Gran Centurions. It was an Italian-American swim club my parents belonged to.

Tom Colicchio

CookingParentsPlaceSnackClub

I like having my picture taken and being a glamorous person. Sometimes when I find myself getting impatient, I just remember the times I cried my eyes out because nobody wanted to take my picture at the Trocadero.

Rita Hayworth

EyesMyselfPictureRememberFind

So many amongst us live in the past rather than loving the present and building a brilliant future. Some people stay stuck for years over something they did or a failure they've experienced. Sad. A life is a terrible thing to waste.

Robin S. Sharma

LifeFailureFutureLiveSadPast

We know we can't win the Cup every year. But we certainly can be in position to win the Cup every year, and if we've done that, I think we've earned our paycheck.

Rocky Wirtz

WinThinkYearKnowDonePaycheck

I throw everything I have into whatever story I'm writing - and so there's something immensely gratifying about finishing one piece and then starting fresh with a new setting, time period and cast of characters, getting to see the world through a completely different lens each time.

Molly Antopol

TimeWritingWorldStoryLensNew

My family's very, very mixed. I am, I guess, a kind of melting pot in a person.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

FamilyI AmPersonKindMelting Pot

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