Stephen J. Dubner Quotes

A lot of people are scared of experimentation because they think you have to be scientists, or they're also scared of it because it means that you have to admit that you don't know the answer. A lot of people like to assume they know the solution to a problem when they don't.

Stephen J. Dubner

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PeopleThinkProblemSolutionYou

Those who ultimately shake up an industry are often outsiders who don't know any better.

Joe Lonsdale

BetterKnowUpIndustryWhoShake

My sister and I created a show called 'The Real Life Brady Bunch,' which was sort of a theatrical sensation that got us attention in L.A. and New York.

Jill Soloway

LifeNew YorkSisterAttentionNew

I never really grew up being political or Labour. It was just a realisation that where you were born mattered. That how you spoke mattered... who you knew mattered.

Jo Cox

PoliticalYouBornNeverUpWhere

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

Jerome Lawrence

FoolManEverythingOutWhoFigured

It's rare when suddenly a window opens up, and you see a side of a celebrity you've never seen before, good or bad.

Matt Lauer

GoodWindowYouBadCelebrityNever

Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible.

Ana Gasteyer

TimePossibleStageGetTenacious

We only invest in businesses that reduce labor.

Steve Jurvetson

LaborInvestOnlyReduceBusinesses

I'm patient.

Michael Jordan

PatiencePatient

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

Desiderius Erasmus

ThinkYouShadowsKnowCaveReal

Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious.

Douglas Wilder

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The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.

Brendan Myers

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Everyone in my family, they do music, and they love music; it's all about the music.

Aubrie Sellers

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