Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
Sam Brownback -
Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
Dana Rohrabacher -
Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
Aaron Brown -
If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
Sadie Frost -
I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.
Barack Obama
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It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
Sadie Frost -
The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.
Victoria Abril -
My children have been learning lessons about entrepreneurship since they were in kindergarten, and these lessons are paying off: even though they are only 22, 18, and 15, they have already collectively launched three nonprofit organizations and several new businesses.
Naveen Jain -
It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.
Rabih Alameddine -
One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
Wendy Craig
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As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
I love children. They're so much fun and I would have a blast spoiling them.
Vanessa Hudgens -
Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
Jackie Chan -
Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!
Nathan Myhrvold -
The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it.
Jack Schwartz
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Through getting sponsored and becoming a part of the Bones Brigade and Powell Peralta, doors were being opened. The entire culture was shifting from ramps to street, and I sort of became a poster child for that.
Mike Vallely Black Flag -
We have a situation where we have a lawmaker here in California who says that if you spank the child, you spank them, you're going to go to jail for a year or you're going to pay a $1,000 fine.
Sean Hannity -
One of the main reasons I wanted to work on 'World War Z' was because I'm a huge fan of the book, and I love the idea of taking a non-linear story and creating a three-act structure out of it.
Marc Forster -
Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
Fidel Castro -
I still do intense interval training. I like miles and quarters best. In races I can set my mind, and I believe I could break 2:20 again.
Catherine Ndereba -
Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb