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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

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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