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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You want to know why Barbra Streisand is so difficult? Because she's brilliant. She's a brilliant entertainer, she's a brilliant lady, and she's a wonderful human being, and the community doesn't like it.
Jerry Lewis -
We used to do sock puppet shows for my auntie back in the day. Me and my friends would do accents of Englishmen, and we would sip tea and act like we were rich in front of the family, and they thought it was just hilarious, the level of perception that we had about things that we'd never experienced.
Keith Stanfield -
I concentrated on a lot of things, so very few people saw me as an education governor, an infrastructure governor.
Mario Cuomo -
You could have the world in the palm of your hand, but it don't mean a thing 'til you change it.
Mac Miller -
When I broke my leg, I never thought I'd ever be skating again let alone be standing on a world podium. I had to relearn how to skate, relearn how to even stand on one foot again. I had to relearn all my technique.
Kaetlyn Osmond -
What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb