Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
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I was doing community theater since I was about nine.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner -
I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
Olivier Martinez -
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde -
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
Karl Marx -
And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
Rainn Wilson -
I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion, and it's not always the fun part of it.
Gail O'Grady
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
Salman Khurshid -
That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
Irvine Welsh -
Even the best scientists are often insecure and feel the need for recognition.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need.
Karen Finerman -
I love the concept of community energy.
Ed Rendell -
We are not yet a society free of sexism, and this will continue to be an issue for all women candidates.
Brown Campbell
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We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.
Gary Neville -
In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.
Yehuda Berg -
I know that many in Germany think we have a merry financial policy over here.
Paolo Gentiloni -
The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.
Nate Parker -
We need to do everything possible to save the Jewish state. We don't have another Jewish state.
Naftali Bennett -
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde
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I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.
Dan Gilbert -
We like scalable companies that we think we can grow - because of our expertise, operational is consumer-facing. For the most part, consumer-facing, technology-driven process, driven sometimes if they're call center or into the sales type of stuff associated with it.
Dan Gilbert -
I do believe there's good in all of us, even if it's layered over so thickly.
Lili Taylor -
I played a funeral convention once. York Casket Company pays well, in case anyone's wondering!
Chris Young -
Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.
Ingrid Newkirk -
What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb