"A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading…" — Nate Silver
"A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news."
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75 Quotes by Nate Silver
Nate Silver has 75 quotes on this site.
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I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold…
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I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's…
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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot…
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Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the…
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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
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We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very…
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One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that…
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Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
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Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don’t have any discipline in how they look at the world, and…
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We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.
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If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after…
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The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.
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More Entertainment Quotes
This quote is filed under Entertainment Quotes,
one of 1,237 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of…
— Hannah Arendt
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction…
— J. G. Ballard
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Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies…
— Antonio Banderas
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I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And…
— Tyra Banks
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All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.
— John Banville
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In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular…
— George Ade
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In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real…
— James Belushi
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Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always…
— Allan Bloom
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'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line…
— Anthony Bourdain
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
— Garth Brooks
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