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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot. -- Nate Silver
I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it. -- Rodney Dangerfield
I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked. -- Timbaland
I even do my ready-to-wear samples like couture. -- Azzedine Alaia
God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis. -- Kenneth Lee Pike
Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum. -- Vladimir Nabokov
MODERATION.SMALL HELPINGS. SAMPLE A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING. THESE ARE THE SECRETS OF HAPPINESS AND GOOD HEALTH. -- Julia Child
Gather up your courage like an armful of free clothes at a McQueen sample sale and follow your inner voice wherever it takes you. -- Kelly Cutrone
As an impoverished student I used to spend days out in Selfridges, nibbling on samples of free cheese and dousing myself with scent in the perfume department. -- Zoe Tapper
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life. -- Douglas Sirk
I started designing my handbags in my apartment and I had six samples made in satin-finished nylon. I displayed them at trade shows but they went unnoticed at first. -- Kate Spade
Sometimes the Lord gives us a free sample of religious experience, but for more, we must pay a price with the currency of sincere dedication to the process of cleansing. -- Radhanath Swami
Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes. -- Walter Moers
I've made clothes my whole life, but I was just naive about the fashion world. But I think it's successful because I've been really involved. Picking the samples, inspirations, color palette. -- Gwen Stefani
Jesus' miracles provide us with a sample of the meaning of redemption: a freeing of creation from the shackles of sin and evil and a reinstatement of creaturely living as intended by God. -- Randy Alcorn
We may not have a sample size larger than one, or we may not have unlimited resources - it's a TV show, and we generally turn these things around in about a week or so. -- Jamie Hyneman
Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples. -- Charles Dickens
My life is at least as intricate as my readers' lives. People say that 'The Artist's Way' changed their lives, but when they talk about 'Floor Sample,' they tell me, 'I was with you all the way.' -- Julia Cameron
At one of the largest advertising agencies in America psychologists on the staff are probing sample humans in an attempt to find how to identify, and beam messages to, people of high anxiety, body consciousness, hostility, passiveness, and so on. -- Vance Packard
The French system of conscription brings together a fair sample of all classes; ours is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. It is only wonderful that we should be able to make so much out of them afterwards. -- Duke of Wellington
The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him. -- Mark Twain
It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good government cannot be found on the bargain-counter. We have seen samples of bargain-counter government in the past when low tax rates were secured by increasing the bonded debt for current expenses or refusing to keep our institutions up to the standard in repairs, extensions, equipment, and accommodations. I refuse, and the Republican Party refuses, to endorse that method of sham and shoddy economy. -- Calvin Coolidge
I'm a sample of Jesus. I'm a super being. -- Benny Hinn
God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis. -- Kenneth Lee Pike
Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store. -- Calvin Klein
I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample. -- Janice Dickinson
I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper. -- Mayer Hawthorne
The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study. -- Kenneth L. Pike
I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff. -- Bill Dixon
I'm tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway. -- Grimes
All my mates are at university, and it's a life I haven't had a chance to enjoy, so it's great to turn up and sample a bit of it. -- Louis Tomlinson
All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view. -- Peter Conrad
In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making. -- G-Eazy
The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class. -- Walter Lippmann
If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work. -- Bill Gates
A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
If you really care about Facebook likes, don't just post your stuff to Twitter and then rely on it being republished automatically to Facebook. In my sample size of one, Facebook penalizes you significantly for that and shows that content to far fewer people. -- Michael Arrington
I've never been one to think it was cheating to sample this or to loop the drum part there - I've always done that. Even using four-track cassette recorders, I was always doing whatever I could to make it as good as I could. -- James Mercer
Taste is developed by the diversity of the products one can sample. I think our children today may be missing an education about food. We must teach them to know their cuisine and to know the equilibrium of nourishment. That is very important for health. -- Joel Robuchon
In the 1980s, in the communist Eastern Germany, if you owned a typewriter, you had to register it with the government. You had to register a sample sheet of text out of the typewriter. And this was done so the government could track where text was coming from. -- Mikko Hypponen
I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that is most often expressed as creativity. My desire in writing the book was to step from behind the icon of 'Julia the teacher' and introduce 'Julia the artist.' -- Julia Cameron
I've been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my time! Evidence of that is that my music is still current today - you know, rappers sample it all the time. So, rather than compromise my artistic integrity, I concentrated on movies. -- Isaac Hayes
This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen. -- Vanilla Ice
Let probability and sample size do the heavy lifting. -- Donald Miller
Ve haf vays of making you gif us your DNA sample. -- Ilona Andrews
Segmenting your sample is one of the easiest ways to simplify. -- Bobby Bragan
For friends' reviews, sample chapters and more pictures go to my website -- Leni Goodman
Designers simply can't afford to make dresses in 10 sizes for a sample. -- Nigel Barker
Materialistic things bring forth some pleasurable moments, but never a sample of happiness. -- Edmond Mbiaka
The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.... -- Miguel de Cervantes
A small sample, we repeat, is rarely the big scientific problem. Interpretation is. -- Stephen Thomas Ziliak
I am not in the least forbidden. You may sample me all you choose. -- Lora Leigh
A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall. -- Jaron Lanier
Inferiority intentions are sample chapters of defeated storiesCourageous beginnings are examples of true leadership values! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Inferiority intentions are sample chapters of defeated stories... Courageous beginnings are examples of true leadership values! -- Israelmore Ayivor
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure. -- Stendhal
The current drum sample market isn't offering enough options in terms of how the drums are captured. -- Joey Sturgis
Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal. -- Ann Landers
I love vinyl, you know? To me it has depth, warmth, it's the best way to really sample. -- RZA
I'm really just concentrating on making good music, whether it's using a sample or doing an original track. -- Rahki
I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design. -- Neil Young
The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study. -- Kenneth L. Pike
If you asked a sample of Americans "What is the temperature of Mars?" about 8% would say they don't know. -- Herbert Stein
I try to find a way that the other guy hasn't thought of using a sound or a sample. -- Alan Parsons
I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music. -- AraabMuzik
You can always find the sample that covers what you're hearing, but barely...it allows me to really concentrate on words. -- Doseone
Music is not disposable, people. We can twist it, sample it, mash it and experience it in endless ways. Open up. -- Kaskade
I love disco and we sample it a lot for Duck Sauce. For me, that sound is kind of a new manifestation. -- A-Trak
Is world peace possible or is the human race too innately aggressive? For instance: Have you ever seen women at a sample sale? -- Woody Allen
Many of us think of salespeople as people travelling around with sample kits. Instead, we are all salesman, every day of our lives. -- Charles M. Schwab
The faster you can sample sound when you are digitizing it, the higher the frequency, the less phase ambiguity at the higher frequencies. -- Owsley Stanley
Appearance matters, we see your presentation before we get a chance to sample the substance within. You might miss a chance for the latter. -- Archibald Marwizi
Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample. -- Mary Roach
I need a sample of your blood,' said Kira. Marcus raised an eyebrow. 'I didn't know we'd reached that stage of our relationship. -- Dan Wells
With the classical stuff, I've always been better at the big brushstrokes and broad textures than spending ages honing a chord, or tweaking a sample. -- Anna Meredith
When you know absolutely nothing about the topic, make your forecast by asking a carefully selected probability sample of 300 others who don't know the answer either. -- Edgar Fiedler
I've been dedicating my life to doing remixes and sample based music. Whether you're into it or not I'm going to continue to pump it out. -- Girl Talk
Yesterday in New York City, Donald Trump officially changed his political affiliation from Republican to Independent. And Donald's hair has switched from pelt to carpet sample. -- Jay Leno
It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions. -- Samuel Wilson
In Aleppo we had the missile itself, and the material, and the sample from the sand, from the soil, and samples from the blood [of chemical weapons]. -- Bashar al-Assad
Since I shoot, record audio and edit, I was able to begin the filming without hiring a crew and create a sample to show broadcasters and grant organizations. -- Chris Hegedus
When someone is buying a sample-based album, they are investing in the concept of that album. If they really like the original source material, they can go buy it. -- Girl Talk
Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual. -- Sarah Zettel
You can count on the fingers of one hand the times a B sample has not confirmed the result of the A sample. It's almost always a delaying tactic. -- Dick Pound
I sample a little bit of everything - a bit of 'House,' a little bit of 'Prison Break.' I love 'Project Runway;' it's my favorite show! -- Michaela Conlin
The military said we'll be able to confirm Saddam is dead with DNA testing. Apparently we have a sample of his DNA. So Monica Lewinsky is working for the CIA? -- Jay Leno
A small sample of the oxygen molecules from any breath that anybody took within the past few thousand years is near certain to be in the next breath you take. -- David Bodanis
Cable's on fire. Traditional broadcast TV's hearing a death knell. I sample as much television as possible. I like 'Homeland,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'Veep.' Now reinvention's important. -- Darren Star
These things I sample, or clip, are things that we share - music, films, sounds. It triggers a layer of participation from the audience as they recognize the material and remember it. -- Christian Marclay
Henry York, aka Whimpering Child, aka WC (hair sample included), is hereby identified as Enemy, Hazard, and Human Mishap to all faeren in all districts, in all ways, and in all worlds. -- N.D. Wilson
He will spit you and roast you with rosemary, and we will all sample your flesh tonight. Tomorrow you will be shat out into the snow. Your diplomacy is bold and edgy, sir. -- Kevin Hearne
If there's a strong melodic thing somewhere, whether that's in a vocal or in a guitar part or a sample. Something that sticks in your brain, that seems to be something that works. -- Lauren Mayberry
If you've got a stick hitting a drum and you're programming it on a computer, it's more interesting than a sample playing back - it's something in the air, that's the magical ingredient. -- Aphex Twin
As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings. -- George Orwell

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