Stephen J. Dubner Quotes

We're surrounded by big problems and people who have been attacking the same big problems for years and years and years and years, and often they're not getting anywhere.

Stephen J. Dubner

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If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too.

Max Lucado

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When you're a young man, a young boy, all you want to be is that action hero; you want to be the James Bond, and I got to do that for a bit, and that was great.

Matthew Lewis

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My work on happiness is the only thing I've ever done where I've heard people in the supermarket talking about it, for instance.

Angus Deaton

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'Grey's' has this universal, global thing to it. It works all over the world.

Shonda Rhimes

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It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

Tom Wopat

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I don't feel like I even need to contribute.

Rob Corddry

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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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But you know we couldn't compare what we do with what the British athletes did at the Olympics. We are very proud to be British and if we have done our bit to promote Britain in a historic year for the country that's brilliant.

Louis Tomlinson

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When I first heard Nina Simone, her naked truth shocked me. Whenever she sang, it felt like lightning bolts in my soul. Every song was like a movie, a unique and very different vignette.

Dianne Reeves

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Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them.

Wynton Marsalis

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I have, on several occasions, disagreed with decisions of Justice Souter.

William H. Pryor

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It would be unthinkable to have a top-ten list of multiple narrative novels that doesn't include David Mitchell. 'Cloud Atlas' is the most obvious choice, but I have opted for Mitchell's slightly lesser known debut, 'Ghostwritten.'

Susan Barker

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