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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Where there is Torah it sustains the world.
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When water isn't rippled, it is naturally still. When a mirror isn't clouded, it is clear of itself. So the mind is not to be cleared; get rid of what muddles it, and its clarity will spontaneously appear. Pleasure need not be sought; get rid of what pains you, and pleasure is naturally there.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
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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.
