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

• I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Girl

• 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

• I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Internet

• The reason they came up with the ratings board is that there are a lot of movies out there, and parents need some guidance. Not only for the kids, but for adults, as well. If you don't like to see a certain kind of film, there should be some rating, so that you know what you're getting into. But the present system doesn't work.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Kids
  • Kind
  • Reason

• As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles.

  

  Trip Hawkins
  • Result
  • Innovation
  • Internet

• If I slip up and receive a good gift, I will not have given a good gift. This is probably a natural law that affects us all and needs a name. The Gift Reciprocal Law.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Law

• Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it... that's the skill of the painter, how you finally know when it's done.

  

  Elizabeth Neel
  • Painting
  • Finishing

• 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