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There's always been a shortage of roles for three-dimensional women, no matter what age. If you look at the statistics on women in film, be they behind the camera or in front of the camera, and it's pretty nauseous-making. It always has been.
Sally Field
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In the welter of statistics about selected ethnic origins (singular or multiple) in the last census, one finding was often overlooked. Of the 25,309,330 people living in Canada in 1986, only 69,065 declared themselves as Canadians.
Charlotte Gray
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Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book.
Italo Calvino
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Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.
Hilaire Belloc
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I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.
Louis Armstrong
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Statistics are for losers.
Scotty Bowman
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
William Cowper
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Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and shutouts, streaks and slumps.
Roger Angell
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When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts.
Leslie Lamport
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Statistics in the hands of activists have power.
Ela Bhatt
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If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.
George A. Romero
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
Hippocrates
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I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.
Matthew Gray Gubler
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Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?
Francois Le Lionnais
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The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.
Norman Ralph Augustine
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Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance
Rene Thom
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Round numbers are always false.
Samuel Johnson
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It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.
John Maynard Keynes
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The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.
Francis Bacon
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The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
Paul Fix
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The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.
Art Buchwald
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statistic: the us bureau of missing persons reports that in 1968 over 100,000 people disappeared leaving no solid clues nor traceonly a space in the lives of their friends.
Ishmael Reed
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You know my methods. Apply them.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.
Winston Churchill
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