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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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 never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
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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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I was always the new kid, and I got to know the language and the politics of being on the outside, looking in. Never being in the clique - always being a student of the clique, a subversive, and I could look around and identify the other guys who were excluded.
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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
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There is nothing quite like having your book read and truly understood. It's all the better when it's someone who knows how to go out there and sell it.
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I have never believed in the impossible.
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The military defeat of an oppressive regime is important, but it does not answer our problems. It is where our problems begin, since social change cannot be reduced to a military solution.
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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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.
