Nate Silver Quotes
Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
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Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.
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Chicken... I am a black man, we love our chicken, but I don't eat it anymore. My genotype means I don't process it as well as other things. But I eat lamb twice a week; that is a super food for me.
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I loved things like Destiny's Child, and Amy Winehouse's first record came out when I was 11 years old. But as a young, young child, I was just surrounded by Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan - just massive, soulful voices.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.
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I've been a closet lover of faux-reality TV since 'The Hills'. It's bad.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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A big part of the anti-immigration narrative is the perception that the majority of immigrants are poor, uneducated, and unskilled.
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Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.
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I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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Everything I post online is curated.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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I'm learning slowly to not be as much of a control freak. I can't afford to be all the time, but I'm getting better at communicating. Delegating parts of my vision for other people to execute has made it an easier process for knowing what I want, and what people can handle, and what I should probably save for myself.
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I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?
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I keep a very low profile in Switzerland. There are only about 2,000 people in the village I live in, so it's a quiet town.
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Not a single muscle quivered On his radiantly evil face. Oh, I know: his delight Is the tense and passionate knowledge That he needs nothing, That I can refuse him nothing.
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We really don't rest if we think our kids are drifting, or if we think they don't have the right work ethic. It drives us crazy. Because we ultimately want them to succeed and, until they do, we feel in some way that something is not complete.
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'Ernest Borgnine' is sort of my version of Woody Allen's 'Purple Rose Of Cairo' in that it's about the occasional difficulty of coming to terms with the cold hard facts and the temptation to escape into another world - like movies, for example. I'm a pro at escaping.
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Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
