Nate Silver Quotes
The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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People always want to doubt you.
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I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.
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I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.
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You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
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I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.
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I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'
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I'm very candid.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
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I'm not a great one for looking back.
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Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
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All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people.
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A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.
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I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.
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Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.
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For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.
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It's rewarding to know that a song is doing more than just helping someone to have a nice day: it's actually leaving a deposit in their lives.
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I have three treasures which I hold and keep. The first is mercy; the second is economy. The third is daring not to be ahead of others. From mercy comes courage; from economy comes generosity; From humility comes leadership.
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
