Stephen J. Dubner Quotes

I believe that people generally want to be what we call good. They want to cooperate with people. They don't want to steal; they don't want to cheat. But everybody has a price. Everybody has an incentive.

Stephen J. Dubner

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We don't know what our health care costs are going to be. We don't know what our tax rates are going to be. We don't know what our interest rates are going to be. We don't know what our energy costs are going to be. All these uncertainties are being driven by the Government's agenda. What we really need to do is get Government to step back.

Jim Renacci

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I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.

Robert Stack

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I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.

John Turturro

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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Ambrose Bierce

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If you look at the economics of Nokia, roughly half of the company, half of the business, half of how we think about the business is focused on those emerging markets and on those lower-priced devices. But, of course, people who are aspirational and buying those lower-priced devices today are looking at smart phones tomorrow, and so forth.

Stephen Elop

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Jacqueline Woodson's books are such a gift to parents and children for their poignant subtlety and lyricism and their willingness to let a reader dwell in the pangs of realization that we sometimes try to protect our children from.

Tracy K. Smith

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Whether you're managing the finances for a household of one, a business of a thousand, or a government of several hundred million, there's no more important statement of fiscal intent you can make than putting together a responsible budget - one that acknowledges its available means, and makes a reasonable attempt to live within them.

Roy Blunt

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I was going to clubs in Manhattan when I was 14.

Mike D

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We disagree with the way things are going in Venezuela that has brought thousands of refugees to Roraima.

Michel Temer

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I have a lot of goals, but I think that I just want to take it day by day.

Michael Phelps

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The greatest luxury of having money should be not having to worry about it.

David Whyte

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New Orleans taught me that mourning takes many different forms. Where I'm from, mourning is spirited. It is loud.

Clint Smith

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