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Stephen J. Dubner Quotes

Think small. Don't pretend you know the answers. Experiment; get feedback. These are all the premises of 'Think Like a Freak,' really.

Stephen J. Dubner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 26, 1963

Topics

Small Think Feedback You Know Freak

I personally would rather raise my child in New York. It seems like it would be easier to make sure she or he gets a whole bunch of experience and understanding of the world. But, people in general think it's easier to raise a kid when you don't have so much stuff in your face.

Experience New York Child People You

My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely know the nature of the metaphor when I begin to write, but there is an attentiveness that a writer develops, a sudden alertness that is much like the feel of a fish brushing against a hook.

Nature Feel Fish Know Way Image

I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?

Steve Guttenberg

World Say Actor Going Changing Who

When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal.

Truth Time Simple People Hypocrisy

I love steakhouses. When I'm in Chicago, I know there's a Gibsons that's open late. 13 Coins at Sea-Tac Airport in Washington is a gourmet restaurant I love.

Love Restaurant Late Know Airport

I went into a French restaraunt and asked the waiter, 'Have you got frog's legs?' He said, 'Yes,' so I said, 'Well hop into the kitchen and get me a cheese sandwich.'

Me Kitchen You Cheese Said Legs

We have a society now where obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only.

Rodrigo Duterte

Law Society Choice Now Obedience

Some people train for certain sports and I want to train to be able to hold a super heavy electric guitar and carry luggage around myself because I always have to have 7,000 pairs of shoes. Who cares about sports?

Sports Shoes Myself People Guitar

There's a huge amount of faith and confidence in the stunt team.

Confidence Faith Team Stunt Huge

I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: 'Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.'

Life Work I Am Me Writing Burn

With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world toward a sustainable future.

Future Support World Inaction Accept

I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are.

Family Thankful Myself Job I Am Me

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