Nate Silver Quotes
I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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My dad is a gentle and brilliant Iranian violinist.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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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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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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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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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.
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I was one of the actors in 'Braveheart,' and that had a huge impact on the political scene in Scotland. One of the results of that, in 2014 there's going to be a referendum in Scotland as to whether Scotland is going to be independent. A great deal of that was brought to the nation as a result of 'Braveheart.'
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The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
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If you have the same drive and passions that everybody else has - for example, if you're trying to do the right thing for your family and do the right thing for people you employ - then you can be forgiven quite a lot.
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A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
