Nate Silver Quotes
On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
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No movie can claim to be a work of philosophy. They fulfill a totally different need in people.
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I worked with the best - Givenchy, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent - and it gave me an ability to be confident. It turned me into a CEO and a creative director and a brand.
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The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.
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On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.
