Stephen J. Dubner Quotes

We took our Catholicism very seriously. We never missed Mass; our father was a lector, and both our parents taught catechism. At 3 in the afternoon on Good Friday, we gathered in the living room for 10 minutes of silence in front of a painting of the Crucifixion.

Stephen J. Dubner

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There are immense numbers of potential entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses among the people who are working in large organisations.

Max McKeown

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Our global structuring activities and restructuring activities really don't impact India.

John L. Flannery

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I will be able to look back on my teen years as spent on a television set just having the biggest bunch of fun.

Sophie Turner

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'No' is always an easier stand than 'Yes.'

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!

Rohit Shetty

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I enjoy doing things that involve research because it's part of what I enjoy about acting.

Michael Sheen

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For publicity purposes, everything gets simplified, and the fact that I wear glasses and am somewhat bookish makes me a geek. That's fine; there needs to be a shorthand, but there are important geek traits that I don't really share.

Louis Theroux

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I do have a lucky pair of underwear.

Brendan Fehr

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I don't really care what's going on I just care about getting my job done the best that I can possibly do and deal with the other things in my life that take a lot of time and a lot of thought.

Brett Favre

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Are there any swamps in Oklahoma? Yes, there is. It's called Tulsa.

Bobby Heenan

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If telecom are seen as a rightful infrastructure for the growth of many other sectors in the economy and the multiplier force, then I think it doesn't deserve to be taxed so high.

Sunil Mittal

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When you are a sentence-based writer, they have to be good. They have to be really on the spot. Because when you don't have a plot, really, what shall you rely on? Just language. And sometimes I am so afraid of writing the wrong thing, I just sit and wait for the right thing to come.

Per Petterson

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