Stephen J. Dubner Quotes

When most people think of economists, they think of macro-economists. Macro-economists try to describe or - even harder - predict the movements of a hugely dynamic system. They're like a transplant surgeon trying to simultaneously transplant every failing organ in someone's body.

Stephen J. Dubner

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PeopleThinkSomeoneTryingBody

When you're not playing the hero of the story, then you have to know that you're always a foil for the good guy. I love playing that. I think that's always an interesting place to be.

Jessalyn Gilsig

LoveGoodHeroStoryThinkYou

You know, you should really look at where Mitt has led his life, and where he's been financially. He's a very generous person. We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person that is trying to hide things, or do things? No.

Ann Romney

LifeThinkChurchYearYouLook

Historians sometimes view presidents very differently from the way the public did at the time. Sometimes they don't.

Michael Beschloss

TimeViewSometimesWayDifferently

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'

Tommy Chong

MyselfCultureWomanManBrother

By the nature of the sport and the danger we face daily, we are very close knit. Some of us have spent most of our lives together. To give you an example, having spent two decades sitting next to Richard Johnson and seeing him virtually every day, I have probably spent more time with him than I have my family, and he the same.

Tony McCoy

FamilyNatureDailyTimeDayFace

For me, it's important that a fan can buy something that is related to me. Like in soccer, you buy a shirt and it's got somebody's name on the back. That's kind of a cool thing.

Roger Federer

MeCoolNameYouBackSoccer

The United States is undergoing a transformation in how it relates to the rest of the world. We are becoming a nation that has no more negotiators and peacemakers, that shoots first and asks questions later.

Ronan Farrow

WorldTransformationRestQuestions

As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.

Mary Stuart Masterson

CreativeDirectorExpressionGet

I remember having mice in the house and my father taking some newspaper and beating me because mice was running on me while I was asleep.

Missy Elliott

FatherMeRememberHouseNewspaper

I love shopping for shoes. I'm a big shoe-lover. Shopping is definitely something that I do on a regular basis.

Diana DeGarmo

LoveShoesShoppingBigSomething

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

Dennis Prager

StrengthGoodPeopleGood PeopleWho

I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.

Dee Brown

DogComputersThinkOldWordTried

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