Nate Silver Quotes
The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
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If you listen to a Deadmau5 record or a Skrillex record, I really enjoy that stuff because, as aggressive sounding as the Skrillex records are, they're still musical, and that's why they have such a broad appeal.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
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Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.
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As an industrial designer, you design the thing by yourself, and then it goes away from you, whereas fashion is in constant relation to the body and to psychology. It makes it more complicated, and it makes it more challenging.
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I watch a happy person doing stand-up, and I go, "What the hell is this? This person's happy!" You need internal conflict. You need the guy to be out of step with society. It's a tool for comedy.
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I think charity begins with your family and you take it from there.
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The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.
