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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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
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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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I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.
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Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
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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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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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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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Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.
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Writing is agony. I hate it.
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You think about the artists I look at as icons, and you assume they were instantly embraced. That's usually not the case. In reality, they had to overcome a lot of noes to get where they wanted to be.
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I engaged in the wildest shenanigans just to distract myself from the horror surrounding me; I was acting according to the motto: if insanity laughs at you, laugh back!
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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.
