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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It's better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.
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America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.
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No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.
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Mubarak was oppressing and pillaging his own people. He was an enemy to the Palestinians and an accomplice of Israel, the sixth nuclear power on the planet, associated with the war-mongering NATO group.
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Mao appears to be quite free from symptoms of megalomania, but he has a deep sense of personal dignity, and something about him suggests a power of ruthless decision when he deems it necessary.
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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.
