Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.
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If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
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Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.
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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
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I want to make shoes that a woman can walk in. That's kind of what they're made for.
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I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.
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Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!
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I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.
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Islam's not just about covering your hair. It's about how you treat other people.
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I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.
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Dresses are beautiful, but I'm such a slacks or a jeans person. Whenever a woman has a slick suit or dress on, she looks sharp.
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I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.
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I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.
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Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.
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There is no room for political, personal or religious ideologies in science.
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Unlike some viruses, we don't know what the natural reservoir is for Ebola. A lot of people think it's bats, but it's still very controversial; it could have been circulating in insects, in an environment, or in individuals.
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Oh, I always think everyone feels left out.
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You go to a plant not only to pat the people on the back, but to tell them about the opportunities they have to do a better job. Quality is one of the opportunities they have to do a better job.
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I met my husband through a mutual friend. He invited me over for dinner and cooked this meal that knocked my socks off - and maybe knocked off a few other pieces of clothing off as well.
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And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?
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I had been really obsessed with Jonestown for a long time - many years - and had read everything there was to read about it, seen all the footage and the documentaries. I found it really chilling in a personal way - the question of people submitting all their personal power and agency and independent thought it the name of a group or ideology. I could not find a way to write about it directly that didn't feel too heavy.
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Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fear.
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Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.
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You know what shows today are missing? Stars.
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If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.
