Dubner Freakonomics Quotes

#1. I think the water cooler is more important than ever. "Oh, did you hear that 'Inside Amy Schumer' is fabulous?" Where do you find it? It's on Netflix, it's on iTunes, it's on places nobody ever heard of five years ago.

Henry Blodget

#2. I know how to move the people, but I know also where to stop in my own actions so that, when I strike, I shall be felt and not seen.

Toussaint Louverture

#3. In TV and film, a little goes a long way. I see the show as horror so a lot of the [violence] is suggested. But it is violent. It is gory. I don't see any need to up the gore. Just to keep it as real and visceral as possible.

Glen Mazzara

#4. The mind requires regular use to remain strong.

Napoleon Hill

#5. Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother
About one vice and fall into another.

Alexander Pope

#6. A husband? A psychopathic stalker? Frank's mind whirled with images of her being raped in the parking lot by some Neanderthal with a baseball bat while he lay bleeding and unconscious on the gravel next to her.

Pete Kahle

#7. Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening of the Beijing Games frightened and enthralled the world, reminding us that China was a nation on the rise, a competitor for global dominance.

Ben Shapiro

#8. Value, whether the result of massed lines, broad strokes, or washes, is the necessary and only tool for modelling form with light.

Nathan Goldstein