"If the prior distribution, at which I am frankly guessing, has little or no effect on the result, then why bother; and if it has a large effect, then since I do not know what I am doing how would I dare act on the conclusions drawn?"

-- Richard Hamming

#Guessing Quotes #Littles Quotes #Results Quotes

“People and their religions don't affect me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Actors want to work with you but they want you to do their thing. Actors, whom I love with a blind partiality, sometimes they want to be soloists in the symphony, not a part of the orchestra.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.”

Source : Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.english.illinois.edu.
“I am working for the victims of Africa, they are African like me. That's where I get my inspiration and my pride,”
“In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.”
“When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.”
“It's a curious, wanting thing.”

Source : "Fingersmith". Book by Sarah Waters, February 4, 2002.
“Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.”

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