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BARRY BERKUS We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singin... NATE PARKER I'd say, specifically after 'Get Smart,' people now know me either as The Guy from '... NATE TORRENCE I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors. TiVo! I was out there before Ti... NATE TORRENCE I loved my start. I'm proud of my spots. I don't feel embarrassed by anything that I did... ... NATE TORRENCE I specifically had my son wear a Browns jersey on the streets of Pittsburgh while we were there. NATE TORRENCE I'd say specifically after 'Get Smart,' people now know me either as The Guy from 'G... NATE TORRENCE People weren't willing to bet on 'The Commercial Guy' when they were casting movies and ... NATE TORRENCE Even through 'Get Smart' or 'She's Out of My League,' I have yet to have that in... NATE TORRENCE I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors. NATE TORRENCE To be honest, I've just become a Steelers fan. NATE TORRENCE I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids. NATE TORRENCE I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you sh... NATE SILVER If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking ... NATE SILVER People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they a... NATE SILVER There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns. NATE SILVER We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wr... NATE SILVER I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs. NATE SILVER Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken. NATE SILVER You get steely nerves playing poker. NATE SILVER Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things... NATE SILVER A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pur... NATE SILVER If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot. NATE SILVER When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen. NATE SILVER When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an... NATE SILVER Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library ... NATE SILVER The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses... NATE SILVER The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information. NATE SILVER We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty. NATE SILVER The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are. NATE SILVER We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and ... NATE SILVER Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge. NATE SILVER Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold strea... NATE SILVER It's important that I get time to run, to just go for a jog for about 30 minutes. It helps with ... NATE RUESS Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pr... NATE RUESS Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anym... NATE RUESS We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest.... NATE RUESS I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs. NATE RUESS I prefer to connect with fans from the stage. Like, I don't have a Twitter page, or anything lik... NATE RUESS I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than... NATE RUESS But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shoul... NATE RUESS I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good v... NATE RUESS I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, beca... NATE RUESS I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing. NATE RUESS In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way. NATE RUESS The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well someti... NATE RUESS If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the ... NATE RUESS Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically ... NATE RUESS As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thin... NATE RUESS A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and tu... NATE RUESS I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering abou... NATE RUESS My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a ... NATE RUESS We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the ... NATE RUESS Running in Central Park is my favorite thing to wake up and do. I have my own specific path that I h... 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NATE POWELL The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings b... NATE POWELL There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own... NATE POWELL Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that. NATE POWELL Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fanta... NATE POWELL I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this w... NATE POWELL I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway,... NATE POWELL I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carr... NATE POWELL The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', &#... NATE POWELL As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between... NATE POWELL My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the undergr... NATE POWELL The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot ... NATE POWELL I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between question... NATE MENDEL How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of quest... NATE MENDEL When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to th... NATE MENDEL How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parod... NATE MENDEL Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny. NATE MENDEL If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has t... NATE MENDEL Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the scien... NATE MENDEL I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily con... NATE LOWMAN Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discou... NATE LOWMAN I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art. NATE LOWMAN I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either. NATE LOWMAN It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when flu... NATE LOWMAN I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I ... NATE LOWMAN I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it'... NATE LOWMAN I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curati... NATE LOWMAN When you mix fashion and politics, you get fascism. Politics have fashion, and it's bad; fashion... NATE LOWMAN I do believe that I will see the apocalypse in my lifetime. And when it comes, I'm not repenting... NATE LOWMAN To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing - they're all just language. NATE LOWMAN A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or p... NATE LOWMAN I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no... NATE LOWMAN I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic. NATE LOWMAN I love language, and I love the failure of language. NATE LOWMAN Dead people don't really die. They live on within you. NATE LOWMAN A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion,... NATE LOWMAN When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm u... NATE HOLLAND My best nutrition tip is to eat things you like that are low in calories and fat. Some of my favorit... NATE HOLLAND I go to all of the trade shows, know a lot of the people making marketing decisions, and I want to k... NATE HOLLAND I've always had a strong start, but the start in boardercross is so important. And if you're... NATE HOLLAND Summertime is my favorite time of year in Sandpoint, reason being, Lake Pend Oreille is warm and rea... NATE HOLLAND When I am behind and I am looking ahead and there is that line in front of you, of that guy, of winn... NATE HOLLAND I think my strengths are definitely - I'm a really good glider. I'm one of the fastest, like... NATE HOLLAND My favorite team is the Bengals. In Idaho, we didn't really have a home team. But my parents are... NATE HOLLAND Some days I'll have good starts, and some days I'll have bad starts. I'm really focusing... NATE HOLLAND I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather tha... NATE HOLLAND The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports. NATE HOLLAND Schweitzer is where I found snowboarding; it will always have a special place in my heart and is a t... NATE HOLLAND When the gate drops, it's time to try and execute the best you can. NATE HOLLAND Once a bustling logging town, Sandpoint has embraced its natural beauty to become an amazing resort ... NATE HOLLAND Lake Pend Oreille is definitely my favorite place to be while in Sandpoint. I love to get out on a b... NATE HOLLAND I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy.... NATE DIAZ I want to fight the best guy. I always want to fight the best guy. NATE DIAZ Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn'... NATE DIAZ Me calling out Roy Jones is disrespectful. NATE DIAZ I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in se... NATE DIAZ I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre.... NATE DIAZ There was a rumor I was walking around at 183 pounds. When I left my room to fight Conor McGregor, I... NATE DIAZ Money talks. I want the biggest fight. Whoever I've got to fight - the biggest show, biggest pay... NATE DIAZ If I had been thinking business since I was 21, I'd be a rich man right now. NATE DIAZ I can always do five, five-minute rounds, any day, even if I was drinking yesterday or doing whateve... NATE DIAZ People like to talk a lot about me, about how I have anxiety or social disorders. I'll admit to ... NATE DIAZ I'm not sure what the UFC's agenda is when it comes to me. It's their show, their press.... NATE DIAZ I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of the... NATE DIAZ My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classro... NATE DIAZ I don't love to fight; I don't want to fight. NATE DIAZ I'm fighting hard; I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over pe... NATE DIAZ If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to... NATE DIAZ If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the ... NATE DIAZ People don't understand: I've had 37 fights, three to five fights every year, for 17 years. ... NATE DIAZ I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun. NATE DIAZ I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around p... NATE DIAZ I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be deal... NATE DIAZ Once I turned pro, I was like,' OK, this is not fun and games now. This is me. I'm going to ... NATE DIAZ I always took a fight; I always took everybody. I fought everybody. NATE DIAZ I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot of things going o... NATE DIAZ It cost me a lot of money to have a vacation, basically. It's nice to step back and see there... NATE DIAZ I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term. NATE CORDDRY I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation. NATE CORDDRY
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