Nate Silver Quotes
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
Mamie Van Doren -
Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
Brown Campbell -
While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.
Rahul Dravid -
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
Sam Harris -
I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
Nancy Pickard
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
Sally Ride -
I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
Tamsin Egerton -
People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
Gary Weiss -
My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would sit on his lap and read the paper with him. He would read it to me.
Dana Perino -
Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.
Samantha Power -
At 9, I think I had really gotten into tennis. I liked writing short stories; I loved solving math problems. I was learning a little piano, and I was collecting Garbage Pail Kids cards.
Pardis Sabeti
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I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
Ralph Abernathy -
Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.
Fabiola Gianotti -
You measure a government by how few people need help.
Patricia Schroeder -
In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
Harold MacMillan -
The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'
Gabe Newell -
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.
Ma Jian -
I look with wonder at that which is before me.
Florence Scovel Shinn -
The radical Islamic movement has availed itself of the PC mentality to convince good-hearted people around the world that the Jews, Israel, and the ‘fascist government of the United States of America’ are responsible for the ills of the Muslim people, and that their daily suffering is because of them. The PC crowds label anyone who disagrees with this notion a bigot. Human rights groups such as Amnesty International and the like have picked up on this phenomenon.
Brigitte Gabriel -
You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.
Shawn Achor -
Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
Nate Silver