Stephen J. Dubner quote: "Spielberg may have intended 'Schindler's List' as the opposite of entertainment, but the film grossed $321 million and engaged audiences as only entertainment can, coaxing them to cry and shudder, leaving their hearts more heavy than broken."

A strange thing happens when Spielberg discusses his own work. His degree of self-criticism seems a ...
STEPHEN J. DUBNER

Like the graduates of some notorious boot camp, my brothers and sisters and I look back with a sort ...
STEPHEN J. DUBNER

Set aside a half hour or an hour to rethink the way you make decisions, the habits you have, the bia...
STEPHEN J. DUBNER

If the world gets a lot hotter in a hurry and the primary aim is to cool it down, then the current p...
STEPHEN J. DUBNER

We're all biased, right, in many different ways - politically, religiously, ideologically, the w...
STEPHEN J. DUBNER

We took our Catholicism very seriously. We never missed Mass; our father was a lector, and both our ...
STEPHEN J. DUBNER

One of the strangest unintended consequences of abortion, of legalized abortion, was that it drives ...
STEPHEN J. DUBNER

Religion is a way to make order from chaos, and I think economics is not dissimilar. In religion and...
STEPHEN J. DUBNER

These are the two sides of Steven Spielberg: the reverent grown-up who knows when to say the right t...
STEPHEN J. DUBNER

Most laws that we make to protect people from guns are usually ignored by the criminals and obeyed b...
STEPHEN J. DUBNER

I think the most fundamental error we make is mistaking a noisy, anomalous event for the norm. This ...
STEPHEN J. DUBNER

Think small. Don't pretend you know the answers. Experiment; get feedback. These are all the pre...
STEPHEN J. DUBNER

As everyone knows, tips constitute the bulk of a waiter's or waitress's income. But they are...
STEPHEN J. DUBNER

People are being incentivized for the wrong things. We've heard about a lot - doctors for proced...
STEPHEN J. DUBNER

If the day's writing has been particularly good or particularly bad, a glass of scotch will be i...
STEPHEN J. DUBNER

The data are what matter in economics, and the more ruthlessness that an economist can summon to mak...
STEPHEN J. DUBNER

While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure.
STEPHEN J. DUBNER

So many people get involved with carrying grudges and having these moral battles with people, where ...
STEPHEN J. CANNELL

Not only do I believe children can be reliable in sexual abuse cases, I believe the vast majority of...
STEPHEN J. CECI

I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside...
STEPHEN J. CANNELL

I'm a very conservative businessman. I don't work on credit. My father was the guy who taugh...
STEPHEN J. CANNELL

I flunked three grades before I got out of high school.
STEPHEN J. CANNELL

Please stop shaking your rain water in my direction. What next? Are you going to come over here, coc...
STEPHEN J. DAY

I am not an outsider. I am an insider who discovered that everyone else had gone out.
STEPHEN J. DAY

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, la...
STEPHEN J. FIELD

My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th...
J. J. WATT

No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short tur...
J. J. WATT

When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a rela...
J. J. WATT

I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that&...
J. J. WATT

Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona...
J. J. WATT

If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He'...
J. J. WATT

Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out ...
J. J. WATT

I get a lot of letters that say, 'I'm a normal, down-to-earth girl. I love to cook, and I lo...
J. J. WATT

My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on the...
J. J. WATT

If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one o...
J. J. WATT

I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I w...
J. J. WATT

When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you w...
J. J. WATT

You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give ev...
J. J. WATT

I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.
J. J. WATT

A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it...
J. J. WATT

I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
J. J. WATT

I never want to let a day go by without having done something to get a little better.
J. J. WATT

There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face jus...
J. J. WATT

I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
J. J. WATT

People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W...
J. J. WATT

A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ...
J. J. WATT

If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you...
J. J. WATT

I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
J. J. WATT

Midi is my hobby.
J. J. JOHNSON

There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the l...
J. J. JOHNSON

I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood...
J. J. JOHNSON

Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've ...
J. J. JOHNSON

We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I ha...
J. J. FIELD

You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows...
J. J. FIELD

The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.
J. J. FIELD

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage...
J. J. ABRAMS

I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
J. J. ABRAMS

I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
J. J. ABRAMS

I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
J. J. ABRAMS

When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid t...
J. J. ABRAMS

People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be su...
J. J. ABRAMS

The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
J. J. ABRAMS

I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
J. J. ABRAMS

Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
J. J. ABRAMS

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
J. J. ABRAMS

I don't think I have a signature.
J. J. ABRAMS

I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginat...
J. J. ABRAMS

I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a...
J. J. ABRAMS

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end...
J. J. ABRAMS

When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
J. J. ABRAMS

You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. ABRAMS

To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
J. J. ABRAMS

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
J. J. ABRAMS

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
J. J. ABRAMS

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
J. J. ABRAMS

When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and t...
J. J. ABRAMS

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles ...
J. J. ABRAMS

You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
J. J. ABRAMS

When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics an...
J. J. WATT

I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
J. J. WATT

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
J. J. PROCTER

If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every si...
J. J. WATT

I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and ener...
J. J. WATT

What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
J. J. WATT

I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
J. J. ABRAMS

Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
J. J. FURNAS

What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so exci...
J. J. ABRAMS

My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice pres...
J. J. WATT

I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I th...
J. J. WATT

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically...
J. J. ABRAMS

With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
J. J. ABRAMS

You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One D...
J. J. WATT

My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to p...
J. J. WATT

When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, ...
J. J. WATT

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don&...
J. J. WATT

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that ...
J. J. ABRAMS

It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don...
J. J. WATT

In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there's always ...
J. J. WATT

The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinis...
J. J. WATT

You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I love the Stanley Cup playoffs.
J. J. WATT

There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappea...
J. J. GREENE

I'm a fast writer.
J. J. ABRAMS

There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking...
J. J. WATT

It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It'...
J. J. WATT

It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
J. J. WATT

The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
STEPHEN B. STEPHEN LEACOCK

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imaginat...
STEPHEN COVEY

Demons manifest themselves in people in different ways. For instance, out of nowhere, somebody can b...
STEPHEN BALDWIN

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my...
STEPHEN HAWKING

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, ...
STEPHEN COVEY

Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good r...
STEPHEN CHOW

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whethe...
STEPHEN KING

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we...
STEPHEN COVEY

A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statemen...
STEPHEN COVEY

Listen with your eyes for feelings.
STEPHEN COVEY

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inward...
STEPHEN HAWKING

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
STEPHEN KING

And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invadin...
STEPHEN KING

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
STEPHEN KING

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find th...
STEPHEN KING

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long a...
STEPHEN KING

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
STEPHEN KING

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your fe...
STEPHEN KING

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.
STEPHEN KING

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
STEPHEN KING

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small ...
STEPHEN KING

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.
STEPHEN COVEY

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
STEPHEN COVEY

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
STEPHEN COVEY

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
STEPHEN COVEY

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along ...
STEPHEN HAWKING

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.
STEPHEN COVEY

The director of 'Independence Day,' 'Godzilla' and 'The Patriot' has certain...
STEPHEN HUNTER

Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.
STEPHEN KINZER

I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. ...
STEPHEN BALDWIN

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important o...
STEPHEN DOUGLAS

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
STEPHEN KING

Get busy living, or get busy dying.
STEPHEN KING

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
STEPHEN GARDINER

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
STEPHEN KING

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn...
STEPHEN COLBERT

Only black holes of very low mass would emit a significant amount of radiation.
STEPHEN HAWKING

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my...
STEPHEN HAWKING

During the 1990s the United States sought to impose the 'Washington Consensus' on Latin Amer...
STEPHEN KINZER

My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a ...
STEPHEN DOBYNS

I'm looking for a woman with the body of Kelly Brook and the mind of Stephen Fry.
STEPHEN MERCHANT

I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to ...
STEPHEN COLBERT

I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any ...
STEPHEN DALDRY

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is r...
STEPHEN HAWKING

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to the...
STEPHEN BATCHELOR

John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of...
STEPHEN PHILLIPS

I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.
STEPHEN REA

Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a ...
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY

Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures,...
STEPHEN HARPER

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I've be...
STEPHEN CURRY

I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check mys...
STEPHEN COLLINS

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner...
STEPHEN FRY

Growing up, it was about finding a way to entertain myself outdoors. We spent all the summers on the...
STEPHEN COLLETTI

Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.
STEPHEN BREYER

Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patr...
STEPHEN KINZER

secrets are a problem, maybe the biggest problem of all. They weigh on the mind and take up space in...
STEPHEN KING

Wanting to know things and do things is what the human race is all about. Exploration, Gwendy! Both ...
STEPHEN KING

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.
STEPHEN COVEY

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative an...
STEPHEN COVEY

I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM

I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary...
STEPHEN HOPKINS

I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremos...
STEPHEN HARPER

I remember that Martin Hannett once had an idea of making a record and burying it in his garden so t...
STEPHEN MORRIS

As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other ...
STEPHEN KINZER

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.
STEPHEN DORFF

Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is bein...
STEPHEN KINZER

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literatu...
STEPHEN STILLS

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
STEPHEN LEACOCK

Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he ...
STEPHEN AMBROSE

I'm your full blown charismatic evangelical freak daddy.
STEPHEN BALDWIN

My African heritage is a part of reggae music roots, and the concept is that the album, 'Revelat...
STEPHEN MARLEY

Bob Marley songs are my songs. These are the songs that have been passed on to me. Let me say, I wea...
STEPHEN MARLEY

All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, wh...
STEPHEN HAWKING

A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They we...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.
STEPHEN LEACOCK

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and...
STEPHEN LEACOCK

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
STEPHEN LEACOCK

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carrie...
STEPHEN LEACOCK

I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume...
STEPHEN DALDRY

In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an exp...
STEPHEN COLBERT

The first Bond movie I saw at cinemas was 'For Your Eyes Only' when I was almost 10. I got i...
STEPHEN COLE

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go s...
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
STEPHEN LEACOCK

As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mo...
STEPHEN GRAHAM

Basketball is booming, and it's not just an Under Armour standpoint: it's about the game its...
STEPHEN CURRY

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot...re...
STEPHEN KING

I'm a Jewish born-again Christian.
STEPHEN BALDWIN

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organiz...
STEPHEN COVEY

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
STEPHEN FRY

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're i...
STEPHEN KING

Spielberg may have intended 'Schindler's List' as the opposite of entertainment, but the film grossed $321 million and engaged audiences as only entertainment can, coaxing them to cry and shudder, leaving their hearts more heavy than broken.

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Stephen J. Dubner

Spielberg may have intended 'Schindler's List' as the opposite of entertainment, but the film grossed $321 million and engaged audiences as only entertainment can, coaxing them to cry and shudder, leaving their hearts more heavy than broken.

Stephen J. Dubner

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