Stephen J. Dubner Quotes
If we treated politics like more of a profession, like it should be, we would all be a lot better off.
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It's better to be happy than to be well-dressed.
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My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to.
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Hiking is something that I really, really like to do. It's distracting, you're in nature, and you get a nice workout that way. I would tell everyone to hike as much as they can - you just feel so much better when you get outdoors. I'm also into yoga.
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
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Let's hope you feel better now.
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When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.
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You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.
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Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an egg or a tomato or a hamburger that wasn't flown halfway around the world, that didn't travel on a truck and get stuck in traffic jams, that hasn't been sitting in a supermarket's refrigerator case for days.
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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
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I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children of Thatcher came in the 1990s, and had no interest in politics. The Oasis, Britpop scene.
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I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.
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I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
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The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.
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If you do write down your passwords, don't make it obvious which password corresponds to which account. Even better, write the passwords incorrectly and make up an easy rule for fixing them. You could decide to add 1 to each number in your password, so that 2x6Y is written as 3x7Y.
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My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.
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When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.
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If we treated politics like more of a profession, like it should be, we would all be a lot better off.
