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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.
- Details
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.
- Full
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- Nov 07, 2020
Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think among the population at large, people are openly fascinated with crime and don't feel any shame over it. It's only the opinion-makers and the 'opinion elites' who turn up their noses.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bunting is usually a waste of time. The - generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is the only play in baseball that both sides applaud. The - if the home team bunts, you get a base. The home team applauds because they get an out, and the other team applauds because they get a base. So what does that tell you?
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is figuring out ways to measure things that people previously considered intangible.
- Ignore
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a candidate for office starts talking about thinning the deer population or investing in barriers to reduce the number of deer on the highways, the other side will probably just ignore him, because they're not going to know what to say about it. But there is a chance that the issue will resonate with voters in an unexpected way.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.
- Newspapers
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.
- False
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you go to a party populated by the NPR crowd and you start talking about JonBenet Ramsey, people will look at you as if you had forgotten your pants.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our society is very, very good at developing certain types of skills and certain types of genius. We are fantastically good at identifying and developing athletic skills - better than we are, really, at almost anything else. We are quite good at developing and rewarding inventiveness.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020