Nate Silver Quotes
I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

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I like to live in my own mind, regardless of everyone and everything, working out the intimate puzzles that are my stories and novels.
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A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.
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I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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I get a lot of backlash for wearing designers that I feel are creators and artists. I get it all the time.
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Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
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As with any moderately famous person, footballers are the source of much gossip. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they are targeted. The fun part as their partner is not knowing who, or what, to believe.
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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Forget about being a guitar player. There's plenty of guitar factories and shops - you can do that'. That was my career officer at school. My mom said 'Fuck them, do what you feel, don't be discouraged by it'. That was cool. We all came from a working class, very supportive background. Joe's mom helped him fold sleeves of the first EP.
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Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.
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People used to ask me: 'Well, was it the power that attracted you to Bill Clinton?' And I said, well, how much power do you think the attorney general of Arkansas has? Of course not. It wasn't that for me. I just a thought he was wonderful in general.
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I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.