Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.
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I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.
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First of all, I'm Middle Eastern; I'm Iranian, so to be playing a leading role in a big Hollywood movie, I think, is possibly one of the first times.
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My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.
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I came to N.Y.C. in 1988 and got very involved with Act Up. I also started making movies, including two very gay shorts, 'Vaudeville' and 'Lady.' It was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and New York City was both dying and very alive at the same time.
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I love holidaying with the kids after working hard, it is amazing.
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I've had an angel on my shoulder all my life.
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We've got to get back on track to working with them. Because if I and my colleagues are going to continue to attract inward investment from overseas - you know particularly from the big Asian countries - they see Britain as a gateway to Europe. They don't want any doubts cast upon that.
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Maybe storytelling belongs in audio - a short story is the length of a commute. That can be a sacred spot where you have the ear of the reader without having to compete with other media like games or TV.
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I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It's not uncommon for Netflix to be involved. Records are a possibility, but most of it is spent in silence.
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If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.
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They said that I had sold out and Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have my thoughts. And I think they're race-hustling poverty pimps.
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The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be- homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.
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Alice In Chains’ Jerry Cantrell Revisits the Band’s Five Records. Noisey (June 7, 2018).
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It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.
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I have enough motivation just not looking like an idiot on national television. The fear of disappointing people is certainly higher.
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I love the stage, but it doesn't pay the mortgage.
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While the man is born to do whatever he can, for the woman and the negro there is no such privilege.
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Because I've done so many hour dramas, people tend to think of you as more of a dramatic actor and don't see you as doing comedy.
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Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.
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Every time I see a bluebird, I say, well, hey, all this hard work is all worth while.
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For the robust, an error is information.
