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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I love everything John Carpenter's ever done.
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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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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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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 live for the text. It's my job.
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In the United States alone, we spend seven times as much on war as on education. There's something wrong there. On this Memorial Day, we should certainly honor those who have died at war, but we should dedicate this day, not so much to their memory, but to the search for a way to end the idiocy of the wars that killed them.
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This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
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There are always ways to make government better, always ways to make sure that the taxes of people are better spent.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
