Nate Silver Quotes
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The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.
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I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
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The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.
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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.
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I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.
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There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.
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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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I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
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It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
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I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
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She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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I've always accepted some kind of deity, especially as a songwriter.
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I've worked closely with presidents, especially with President Obama, and I realized that what good leaders do at the national level is no different than what we do at the local level.
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We're thrilled to expand our relationship, knowing that with the great team at the Music Group, Word, and Warner Bros., and with their proven record of excellence, we're looking ahead to an even brighter future for Curb.
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The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con - and there are always a lot of attendants of color. And I think some people believe that black people or people of color are not into science fiction or hero shows or genre shows.
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The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.
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It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.
