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To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight.

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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
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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 myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.
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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 a day when Mr. Obama leads 19 out of 20 swing-state polls, then you should abandon the pretense that your goal is to inform rather than entertain the public.
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Success makes you less intimidated by things.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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Accountability doesn't mean apologizing.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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