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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If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
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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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The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.
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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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A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
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I'm not sure my achievements have been 'great.'
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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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I've had a love affair with the desert ever since I can remember. No matter what I wrote - contemporary romance, spy thriller, high fantasy - it was going to have a desert in it.
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Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.
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Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.
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If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.
