Stephen J. Dubner Quotes
We're all biased, right, in many different ways - politically, religiously, ideologically, the way our family raised us - and that's fine. Nobody wants to live in a world where everybody thinks exactly the same. The key, though, is to try to figure out where your biases are holding you back from solving problems.
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People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad sense, don't really enter into my thinking.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it's going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I'm hoping they'll just go hand in hand.
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Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.
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What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.
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I'm trying to talk about challenging subjects people might not like and trying to find relief as we discuss it.
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In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'
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New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.
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All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.
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To be creative you actually have to do something.
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New Labour needs to realise that family life and the way we raise our children are private matters.
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If you're feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance - and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you've ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.
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I know sometimes my Twitter feed is intense, but I take it as a friendly void to scream into. I don't have another way to be.
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We're all biased, right, in many different ways - politically, religiously, ideologically, the way our family raised us - and that's fine. Nobody wants to live in a world where everybody thinks exactly the same. The key, though, is to try to figure out where your biases are holding you back from solving problems.
