Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
Radha Mitchell -
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
Salvatore Quasimodo -
Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
Page McConnell -
For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
J. B. Pritzker -
Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
Rachel Perry -
When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
Quincy Jones
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
Dan Jenkins -
I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
Carey Lowell -
A man is as alive as he can communicate.
L. Ron Hubbard -
Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.
Haldan Keffer Hartline -
There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
B. D. Wong
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
Fernando Botero -
At comedy festivals, we always get grouped with other musical comedians, so you can get to know them and see what everyone is doing. it's really fun and awesome that we're the only girls, because we can tackle issues that guys can't sing about.
Kate Micucci -
When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
Damon Lindelof -
When I work on a movie, I never aim for records, collections or the number one position. I always concentrate on my work and look for ways to improve my acting abilities. I also advise my co-stars not to concentrate on these pretty issues and just focus on acting.
Mahesh Babu -
You were born as the one you are.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.
Karl Abraham
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Of course, the American education system is very inefficient in many ways compared to other countries in Europe or Japan, but it works in such a way that at least the few people who are going onto unusual careers and science can manage to get into that, even though they go through an earlier stage that doesn't give them much.
John Forbes Nash, Jr. -
The only reason I've managed to run this open source project, is that I have learned to delegate even the delegation to other people. (final words of the video).
Larry Wall -
Harry Dresden: Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!
Jim Butcher -
Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb