Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
Idina Menzel -
It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
Karen Kain -
Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
Waylon Jennings -
'The HoneyLine' is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.
Gabrielle Reece -
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
An actor has to embody a role.
Taylor Hackford
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
Carl Stokes -
If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
Viktor E. Frankl -
In a universe that's an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.
Wayne Dyer -
My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
Patricia Heaton -
I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown.
Olivia Cooke
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
Abel Ferrara -
I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.
Rachel Platten -
I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
Abbey Lee Kershaw -
I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.
Karl Pilkington -
Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.
Canelo Alvarez
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A part is greater than the whole; By hints are mysteries told. The fringes of eternity, - God's sweeping garment-fold, In that bright shred of glittering sea, I reach out for and hold.
Lucy Larcom -
I'm pretty professional. I'm very aware when I'm not playing well and what I need to improve. I'm pretty motivated to fix things. There are guys out there who are not realistic; they don't like to take blame for certain things they don't do well. That's the nature of doubles sometimes: it's easy to find faults in your partner.
Daniel Nestor -
I think Leon told Mo (76ers coach Maurice Cheeks) that they weren't inviting me.
Allen Iverson -
It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.
Thomas Hobbes -
I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb