Stephen J. Dubner Quotes

Statistics on religious affiliation are notoriously slippery: the government isn't allowed to gather such data, and the membership claims of religious organizations aren't entirely reliable.

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• I just look at all the fruit and all the people's lives that are being changed and are being touched. And that's what we really focus on because we hear - every day we get mail, we visit with people, and their lives are being changed.

  

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• Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.

  

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• Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.

  

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• The longer you're on a show like 'SNL,' the less frequent the Google alerts become.

  

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• Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!

  

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• I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'

  

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• I owe everything to France.

  

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• We just want to see entertaining, exciting games, and we want the officials to do a good job.

  

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• A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

  

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• Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.

  

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• Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.

  

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• I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really.

  

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• It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

  

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• I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

  

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• This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.

  

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• If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

  

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• I think for any artist, your voice is always evolving. For me, the constant is finding a tension or balance between drama and comedy.

  

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• I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.

  

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• Statistics on religious affiliation are notoriously slippery: the government isn't allowed to gather such data, and the membership claims of religious organizations aren't entirely reliable.

  

  Stephen J. Dubner
  • Government
  • Religious
  • Statistics