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.
Stephen J. Dubner
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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.
Harold Prince
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.
Nancy Gibbs
The longer you're on a show like 'SNL,' the less frequent the Google alerts become.
Vanessa Bayer
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!
Yvonne Strahovski
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Ogden Nash
I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'
Maisie Williams
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.
Ice Cube
Since light is best expressed through differences in color quality, color should not be handled as a tonal gradation, to produce the effect of light.
Hans Hofmann
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.
H. L. Mencken
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
