Nate Silver Quotes

When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.

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• When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body – it's more athletic.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Model
  • Singer
  • Fantastic

• I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Kind
  • Always
  • Scared

• I think of myself as a cover girl. But I would never do some kind of cheesy magazine.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Girl
  • Kind
  • Myself

• You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Kind

• The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • World
  • Society
  • Internet

• I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Kids
  • Everything
  • Sorry

• Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Fame
  • Very
  • Shoulders

• San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Long
  • Kind
  • Leader

• I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • America
  • Science
  • Kind

• To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

  

  Ouida
  • Kind
  • Always
  • Innocence

• There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kind
  • Growth
  • Something

• There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Kind
  • Sexy
  • Evening

• Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Dad
  • Kind
  • Baseball

• As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Kind
  • Story
  • Forget

• I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Kind
  • Person
  • Grudges

• The Internet is so big that no one can control anything, really.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Control
  • Internet
  • Big

• Through the Internet, I've developed a strong social network - something I could never do if I had to keep my choice of peers within school grounds.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • School
  • Strong
  • Internet

• I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Career
  • Successful
  • Fame

• The world is a better place today because you decided to be gentle and kind.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • World
  • Kind
  • Better

• The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Population
  • Less
  • Then

• I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Risk

• Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Book
  • Hate
  • Reason

• When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Kind
  • Internet
  • Fame