Nate Silver Quotes
The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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Being innovative in your philanthropy allows you to stride forward in your giving journey; you can marry your mind and heart to turn charity into lasting impact; and you can become more ambitious in your giving.
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There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.
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All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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I knew nothing when I first met him. He taught me to see things through his eyes. Dalí was my teacher. He let me use his brushes, his paint and his canvas, so that I could play around while he was painting for hours and hours in the same studio. Surrealism was a good school for me. Listening to Dalí talk was better than going to any art school.
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Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television - or just written.
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The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
