Nate Silver Quotes
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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Acting is a way to escape who you are for a short period of time. It doesn't happen all the time , but every now and then, the sensation of being 'other' is very profound. You get this moment where you are no longer yourself. You lose consciousness of the crew or the audience... it's a thrilling moment. And even quite spiritual.
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Comment is free but facts are sacred.
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If a guy is tall, that's a plus, and he has to have a great personality. He needs to keep up with me because I can be an off-the-wall, aloof chatterbox sometimes! But if he's got some height on him... God bless.
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I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.
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I don't think I'm predominantly thought of as being a comedic actor.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
