My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classroom. They were always putting me in special ed. But I was smart; I wasn't like these kids in the special-ed classes. But it would make me feel a little bit stupid.
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Related I was always a show girl. My parents were wonderful. There wasn't a lot going on where we lived,... ANNA MAXWELL MARTIN Now, where does my comedy come from, like, as a human being? Yeah, when I was a kid I was dyslexic a... DAX SHEPARD My childhood was bittersweet in many ways. We moved around a lot. By the time I was 10, I had travel... NILE RODGERS It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I... ALANNA UBACH From the beginning of puberty, I did really badly in school. I was super dyslexic; I was in special ... PETRA COLLINS I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who we... ROB LOWE I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn'... JIM CARREY I've always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn't. I felt like ... CONOR MCGREGOR There's something about somebody who does something special in the UFC that they're allotted... TYRON WOODLEY I was seen as a little weirdo. But I was certain I wasn't a weirdo. I knew who the weirdos were,... KATHERINE RYAN It's always been special when we go to Peoria, but I would be a liar if I said this one wasn't speci... KEN CRAWFORD A lot of parents are extremely thankful we're trying to fill a void they'd had in the past. We've be... ED HARRIS I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't workin... DAVID CASSIDY I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't ser... J. COLE I'd have to say, for me, as a child, my favorite memories were always centered around Christmas ... JOSIE BISSETT I couldn't do 'The Ed Sullivan Show.' Ed said I was a flash in the pan, and he was right... SCOTT MCKENZIE I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it. SAMMY DAVIS, JR. Nate Robinson has a lot of jumping ability, but I don't see Josh losing. DOMINIQUE WILKINS My parents, my family, that's the biggest inspiration in my life. I've been in a lot of dark... J. R. SMITH The file clanked against me, my stupid idea nobody would have gotten had I ever done it. You even wo... DANIEL HANDLER Since my parents both worked, they hired me when I was 11 to make dinner every night. I got a quarte... TERI HATCHER I listened to a lot of Jay-Z and Kanye coming up, which would be unexpected for a boy bander like me... LIAM PAYNE When kids tried to pick on me, I always had one line to shoot them down with: 'I make more money... TYLER JAMES WILLIAMS I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was... ANTHONY DOERR I was an active little kid and I always listened to exciting music. My dad was into Hendrix. I was i... JOSH MORGAN I used to make my grandparents pay a dollar to watch me sing 'Grease' songs and 'Somewhe... ZOE KRAVITZ Kids come into the classroom and it's very hands-on, ... Kids like this. After phys ed, it's their f... ALICE WATERS I never forgot how Ed took me in as an assistant here [1987-88] when my father [Charlie] got out of ... PAGE MOIR I like a lot of the stuff that they did without me, the time I wasn't around. DAVE LOMBARDO I met all these important people and did all these stories, but I always had such excellent producer... MIKE WALLACE To make extra money, my parents would sell eggs and chickens. I was very little. I remember a chicke... MICHAEL KEATON My childhood, I wouldn't say it was bad. It helped me grow up. I stayed out of trouble. My paren... RUSSELL WESTBROOK I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should b... OLIVIA WILDE I had a lot of trouble in school to begin with. I got left back in kindergarten, and I was in specia... JESSE BALL In my 20s, I used to have a lot more energy! I was this skydiving, bungee-jumping adrenaline junkie.... PRIYANKA CHOPRA I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxuriou... CANDICE OLSON I kind of - I like my life; I feel I have lots of opportunities. And my parents actually having had ... AMY CHUA I wasn't trying to be a role model with 'The Dutchess,' but suddenly, seeing little girl... FERGIE I've been dancing since the age of two. I don't really remember it, because I was little, bu... MADDIE ZIEGLER I have a lot of nieces and nephews. I was always around kids. I was like the family babysitter becau... DOREEN CRONIN I think it's important for kids to express themselves with bad fashion. I struggle a little bit ... BUSY PHILIPPS I've always loved records, even when I was a kid, my parents would buy me records instead of a l... MAYER HAWTHORNE My parents were pretty much open. They didn't restrict me. I've always been interested in special ef... JOSHUA REALE When I was at home, I felt loved and safe. My sisters were always a safe haven for me. I knew they w... KHLOE KARDASHIAN ...Don't feel sorry for me. I'm glad I had a second chance in life like you said to be smart because... DANIEL KEYES They were really overemphasizing jumping on my right hand. They were trying to force me to go left. ... BRANDON RUSH I was two years old when my mom put me in mommy and me classes. I always had a lot of energy so it w... ALY RAISMAN I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The gi... MARILYN MONROE I keep a lot of things inside. I don't like showing too much emotion. Early in the minor leagues... VERNON WELLS I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected ... NICHOLAS BRAUN I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher'... DAMON LINDELOF I don't really remember, but I'm positive that whenever I cried, my mother gave me something... JEAN NIDETCH I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in... J. COLE I'm a huge fan of a lot of different genres of music, and I really felt like somehow I had been ... KATHLEEN EDWARDS I was sent to ballet classes when I was a little girl. I wasn't very good, but it's that thi... CAT DEELEY I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always arou... MICKY DOLENZ I wasn't really taught about the value of money. I just learnt it as I grew up, but I do remembe... LAURA TROTT I had travelled to a lot of cities in Europe before, but Prague was special. It held a mysterious at... ARFI LAMBA I was aware of a lot of my friends being into things I wasn't into. Like sarcasm. It had never b... KATE BUSH I grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything abo... LOUIE SCHWARTZBERG I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at shelte... BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up wi... SAMMY HAGAR I love all sports! I'm always impressed by athletes. I also love watching the Olympic Games. In ... OLGA FONDA When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them. RODNEY DANGERFIELD I have great ideas, but the follow through is always really difficult for me. As my kid gets a littl... BUSY PHILIPPS I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four y... DOMINIC MONAGHAN If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had someth... PALMER LUCKEY I was very disruptive. I was horrible. I didn't learn like all the other kids. I had to sometime... ELIZA COUPE When I showed up at UH, my hair was past my waist. I had a goatee. I wasn't a theater geek; I wa... BRETT CULLEN Everyone was always asking me questions because I was so tall. Buying clothes was the hardest part. ... JASON BENNETT I don't think most people understand that when I wasn't running for president, I was working... RICK SANTORUM I didn't go out for a soap until I moved to New York. I wasn't even considering soaps, but m... TREVOR ST. JOHN And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and tre... LISA SNOWDON My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I... MARK STRONG Into The Woods was... a lot of running around in the woods! I can't wait to see the show again. ... BERNADETTE PETERS When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the ... BRAD PITT I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it. LEBRON JAMES All of a sudden, I was in charge of my own decisions in the studio, and I didn't have someone to... JOHNNY MATHIS I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it w... JACK OSBOURNE When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have a... KIRSTEN DUNST As a little girl, I was always shy, but in front of the camera I wasn't. BAR REFAELI One of the first drawings I did in Paris - I wasn't thinking of doing drawings, but somehow or o... ELLSWORTH KELLY I wasn't a troublemaker. I wasn't impertinent. The teachers liked me. But year after year, t... TIM HOWARD It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Ni... CHRISTOPHER DARDEN I'm the youngest of five kids, and I wanted attention. And in Santa Barbara, there was lots of t... ANTHONY EDWARDS The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are importa... LAMAR ODOM I know that I am stupid but when I look around me I feel a lot better. ANONYMOUS When I was 4, my parents took me to see a musical, and I was like, 'I want to do that!' I st... AUBREY PEEPLES He had a great tournament. A lot of these kids have been wrestling since they were little guys, so f... BERNIE BOTHEROYD I wasn't enjoying golf much. I was kind of getting a little bit tired, I was getting a little bi... PAULA CREAMER I will always continue to make stupid action films but I think 'V For Vendetta' is a very sm... JOEL SILVER I learned by watching my favorite shows. I would just rewind and say the words back, until they soun... ADELAIDE KANE My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the s... FLORENCE WELCH My greatest gift in life was being dyslexic. It made me special. It made me different. If I had not ... CAITLYN JENNER I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little sto... SAMANTHA SHANNON I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of sm... RICHARD CARMONA When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worke... JAMES FRANCO I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my paren... MARA WILSON I got it into my head that I had somewhat neglected the guitar, and then I did a record called '... TODD RUNDGREN I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for every... GARY JOHNSON
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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 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 It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying... NATE DIAZ I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't k... NATE BERKUS I have a large watch collection, and classic watches are especially important to me. I had a silver ... NATE BERKUS We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singin... NATE PARKER I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the... NATE BERKUS 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... NATE RUESS My mom is probably the only person shorter than me that I'm scared of. Still to this day. She... NATE ROBINSON When I was younger, I was a bit of a feisty fighter type of guy. That's something my father told... NATE ROBINSON We're a competitive family - we compete in everything we do: playing cards; if we're walking... NATE ROBINSON I love basketball, but I miss football every time I watch it. NATE ROBINSON I love for the crowd to feed off me, and I try to make my teammates feed off me. NATE ROBINSON I am a diehard Seahawks fan because I'm born and raised in Seattle. NATE ROBINSON Fans are awesome. NATE ROBINSON The NBA is all politics. It's about who you know. NATE ROBINSON I ran track for my school. I played football, but I didn't play for my high school; I played for... NATE ROBINSON Nobody really doubted me playing football, making it to the NFL. I was like, 'I know I can do th... NATE ROBINSON I've got the best shoe guy in the business. NATE ROBINSON I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my siste... NATE ROBINSON As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them ... NATE ROBINSON Mike D'Antoni was a cool coach, but he was just a bad person. He can coach. He was just mean for... NATE ROBINSON There's so many kids in the world who are told, 'You can't do this, you can't do tha... NATE ROBINSON Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9. NATE ROBINSON I don't like one-foot jumpers like LeBron James. It looks better jumping off two feet. Every tim... NATE ROBINSON My least favorite subject? Uh... I didn't have a least favorite subject because, I mean, high sc... NATE ROBINSON Guys back in the day, we didn't have wallets. I never kept my money in my pocket; my money alway... NATE ROBINSON I'm going to be me, regardless of anything. NATE ROBINSON I always wanted to play with Kobe Bryant. I used to tease him all the time. Every time I was a free ... NATE ROBINSON You don't have to be the biggest, tallest, strongest guy to do whatever you want to do. You can ... NATE ROBINSON 'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart. NATE POWELL Power, privilege, and violence are not, and never were, strictly Southern issues in America. NATE POWELL Comics creators are generally screwed in life: Most of us who are fortunate enough to do comics full... NATE POWELL There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay ... NATE POWELL My narrative style centers around intimate, highly subjective depictions of personal experience and ... NATE POWELL We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'l... 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 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 Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. Wh... NATE CORDDRY Lewis Black taught me stand-up. NATE CORDDRY My manager has season tix to the Dodgers, four seats to 40 games, and they're right behind the p... NATE CORDDRY There are a lot of funny people in my family. Absolutely. There were a lot of jokes growing up aroun... NATE CORDDRY Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make su... NATE CORDDRY When you work at 'The Daily Show,' you have to give 100 percent, or you're gone. The com... NATE CORDDRY I hate sets. I've always hated sets. I think that if you have a dining room set, break it up! NATE BERKUS Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you. NATE BERKUS One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants... NATE BERKUS If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you th... NATE BERKUS About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live wi... NATE BERKUS I do shop online! But I'm shopping online mostly in the home categories - One Kings Lane and Gil... NATE BERKUS Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memorie... NATE BERKUS Mixing in some rusty oranges is a warm way to update your place for fall. NATE BERKUS Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what... NATE BERKUS I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I... NATE BERKUS Go outside! I mean, even leaves from a park are beautiful in a clear glass vase. I'd rather see ... NATE BERKUS My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something tha... NATE BERKUS I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a r... NATE BERKUS In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do. NATE BERKUS You can find a lot of reasonable buys at Wal-Mart. But one key to making it on a budget is by donati... NATE BERKUS We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin po... NATE BERKUS In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect. NATE BERKUS In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all dep... NATE BERKUS When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns... NATE BERKUS Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in... NATE SILVER You can change the feel of your sofa by adding a thick, cozy throw and playing a couple of classic p... NATE BERKUS My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, '... NATE ROBINSON First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political vi... NATE SILVER Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press. NATE SILVER I had never heard of Cingular, but they needed people to jump on trampolines. Well, when I was 13, I... NATE TORRENCE People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting. NATE SILVER We hold back our true feelings and beliefs, whether it's from a sense of being polite or fear of... NATE BERKUS The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,... NATE SILVER Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backd... NATE BERKUS On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to pl... NATE SILVER I believe your home tells a story about who you are and who you aspire to be. We represent ourselves... NATE BERKUS I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly ev... NATE RUESS