Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.
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There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
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Weezer's 'El Scorcho.' I'm in a '90s cover band called 'Straight 2 Video' with members of the crew from 'The Vampire Diaries,' and we played this song at our wrap party. I grin from ear to ear every time I scream this song in my car.
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With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
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I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.
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Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?
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The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world.
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Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.
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One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
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In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.
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The San Gabriel monument expands our natural heritage, but there is more in need of safeguarding - extraordinary places like Utah's Greater Canyonlands.
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Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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I think film cannot only teleport you to places you don't know, but it can help you see people you thought were one way and in fact are another. They can allow us to examine ourselves.
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I really don't care what I look like as long as it fits with the thing I'm working on.
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I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
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As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad.
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Well, Mark, I led the charge for five or six years to get reforms for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I was chairman of an organization called 'FM Policy Focus.' What we were saying was, if there was blip in the housing market, Fannie and Freddie would destabilize the greatest economy in the world.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
