"You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast."

-- Nate Silver

#Trying Quotes #Want Quotes #Influence Quotes

“Practical gifts are another great way to be thoughtful, and they work for anything from birthdays to dinner-party gifts.”

Source : "Perfect Gifts, According to Phoebe Cates". abcnews.go.com. June 01, 2006.
“The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.”
“My limited experience of such things told me that you get closest to the truth by not giving it advance warning that you're coming after it.”

Source : "The Lonely Dead". Book by Michael Marshall Smith, 2004.
“That's one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don't have hometown love, then what's the point?”
“I have always been a singer/songwriter, and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.”
“Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.”
“Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn't know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed.”
“All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.”

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