Nate Silver Quotes
To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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When I was forty, I was getting divorced, living in a low-class, dirty hotel in New York. My mother was dying of cancer. I owed $20,000. That was about the lowest. I came back to show business, and I couldn't get a job. I was turned down by every small-time agent in New York.
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The concept of loyalty is a very strange concept. When loyalty is to be tested, the real answer is that may it never be.
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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I believe that having an open mind is one of the most important qualities we can possess. Once our minds close, we stop evolving.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
