Nate Silver Quotes
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I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.
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Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you've earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.
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I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like.
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I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.
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Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.'
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There are so many devices that can receive video, creating complexities, because suddenly you can have a TV, laptop, smartphone, pads. And they are of different sizes. It's clear that you need to standardise and get a much more efficient TV delivery.
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I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
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'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I'm going to walk it.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.
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As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.
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As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing.
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Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.
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There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.
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I've just always been a bit of a dork.
