Ben Goldacre Quotes

Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.

Ben Goldacre

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When I turned 25, something changed in me. I see children in my future 100%. Soon. I started thinking I want my kids to look back and say, 'Wasn't Mummy amazing?' I've really started thinking about what I'm leaving for them.

Jessie J

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I can only speak for myself - I don't care how I look.

Jerry Ferrara

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I'm one of those guys that spins through the clicker when I'm watching TV. When one of my movies comes on, I'll watch a scene or two.

Jeff Bridges

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To a bookish boy in a Boston suburb in the mid-1970s, the lyrics of Cole Porter came as something of a revelation.

Amor Towles

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I find it very hard to write about Jewish history.

Simon Schama

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The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

Joyce Maynard

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Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs, and you're usually best listening.

David Slade

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One of the funny things about Wonder Woman is that everybody does love her. She does win everybody over at some point.

Cliff Chiang

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I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

Cillian Murphy

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I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.

Aloe Blacc

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We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Thucydides

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If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.

Norman Cousins

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