Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications.
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The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.
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I think sometimes parents and teachers can push children away from reading by telling them it's something they must do, the same way they must eat their greens and must pass their exams in school. Poppycock! Read or don't read - that's your call.
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My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'
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The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.
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There's never been a boxer better than Joe Louis. You'd take one shot from him and you were sure he'd have seven or eight more coming for you. Certainly Muhammad Ali was the greatest man ever to fight, but not the greatest boxer.
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You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
