Goldacre Bad Quotes

#1. The absolute heart of loyalty is to value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear. In fact, you should value them most. Because they have paid you the compliment of leveling with you and assuming you can handle it.

Pat Summitt

#2. I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead?
Thank you. Anton.

Ben Goldacre

#3. Ask God to help you see the world the way He sees it.

Billy Graham

#4. He who, being bold
For life to come, is false to the past sweet
Of mortal life, hath killed the world above.
For why to live again if not to meet?
And why to meet if not to meet in love?
And why in love if not in that dear love of old?

Sydney Thompson Dobell

#5. I might not be able to hold my drink or my man, but what I can hold, is a tune. Point me in the right direction and give me a bloody mic.

Lindsey Kelk

#6. When you shoot nude, you always find a way to, like, cover yourself up in a way. So you really don't feel like you're truly naked because you're still covering yourself.

Ronda Rousey

#7. In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.

Andrew Mason

#8. Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.

Seneca The Younger

#9. It's difficult to create fashion, you can't just learn it, you have to have fashion in your DNA.

Roberto Cavalli

#10. If you turn people away enough times, eventually they stop trying to find you.

Harriet Reuter Hapgood

#11. Yes. I'm a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm.

Ben Goldacre

#12. Having blown up my own long-term marriage via an extramarital affair, followed by a traumatic divorce, I tend to think of love as less a gently glowing hearth than a set of flaming train tracks you strap yourself onto.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#13. All the defects are obstacles that anchors the mind to the external senses.

Samael Aun Weor

#14. For everything you embrace, there is a consequence

Sunday Adelaja

#15. Bad things happen when problems are protected by a force field of tediousness.

Ben Goldacre

#16. He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave, He is wisdom to the mighty, he is succour to the brave, So the world shall be his footstool, and the soul of Time his slave, Our God is marching on.

Julia Ward Howe

#17. ... sometimes you need to be imaginative about what kinds of research you do, compromise and be driven by the questions that need answering, rather than the tools available to you.

Ben Goldacre