Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I would love to be a role model.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.
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In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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I'll be too old to face a difficult championship as the one in America will surely be.
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.
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Mucho de lo he dejado de hacer en mí, sigue haciéndose en mí, solo.
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Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
