Nate Silver Quotes
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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Elves are cool, man.
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
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What I always say to people is dress from the feet up. If you don't normally wear colour, try some colour on your feet; it's the place, I think you can have fun and update your outfit.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.
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Sometimes I say in France: Europe is no more the center of the world - and the United States, neither. We have other key players on the international stage: China, of course; but also Brazil, India and South Africa. And their influence is very, very strong.
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But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.
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I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.
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The great benefit I see to marrying you is that I would be married to you.
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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
