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.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Will
  • Move
  • Forward

• 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?'

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Money
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Time
  • Song
  • Party

• With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Community
  • Changing

• American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Time
  • World
  • American

• 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.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Day
  • Period
  • Modern

• Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

  

  Vin Scully
  • Knee
  • Day-to-day
  • Andre

• The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Islamic
  • Move

• Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • True
  • Yourself
  • Be True

• One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.

  

  Hank Haney
  • High
  • You
  • Idea

• There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

  

  O. Henry
  • American
  • Day
  • Thanksgiving

• 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.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Life
  • World
  • Single

• In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Live
  • Man
  • Genesis

• 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.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Long
  • Want
  • Body

• 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.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Women
  • True
  • France

• The San Gabriel monument expands our natural heritage, but there is more in need of safeguarding - extraordinary places like Utah's Greater Canyonlands.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Like
  • Need
  • Extraordinary

• 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.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Home
  • American
  • Freedom

• In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • World
  • Shoes
  • Clothes

• When in charge, take charge, but treat your subordinates with respect, dignity, and common courtesy.

  

  Hal Moore
  • Respect
  • Dignity
  • Charge

• I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Think
  • Me

• I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Funny

• I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Time
  • Want
  • Development

• One's god dictates the kind of law one implements and also controls the application and development of that law over time. Given enough time, all non-Christian systems of law self-destruct in a fit of tyranny.

  

  George Washington
  • Time
  • God
  • Kind

• I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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  • Still
  • Charge