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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Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.
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A Central Bank official said that Q-coin did not affect the renminbi; it adds vibrancy to the economy.
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I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.
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I love to bake. There's something very ritualistic about it, kind of magic.
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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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I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.
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I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.
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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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I haven't always been vocal about my feelings, especially in a relationship.
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Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.
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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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I try to write three jokes every day. I don't sit down and write them, it's just things that pop into my head. Then I'll go watch it fail onstage that night.
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I would remind you...that Socrates was executed not for saying what things were or should be, but for seeking practical indications of where some reasonable approximation of truth might be. He was executed not for his megalomania or grandiose propositions or certitudes, but for stubbornly doubting the absolute truths of others.
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Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
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Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.
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Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
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For the robust, an error is information.
