Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
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I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
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I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
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I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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I have watched a number of Megastar Chiranjeevi garu's films after becoming an actress.
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The solidarity - now, you can`t challenge Donald Trump until he gets there White House, but let me tell you, we are united. We are going to do our job.
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How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.
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Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!
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I don't think in terms of that bizarre tautology 'value for money' in my literary and journalistic work - and nor will I in my academic role. However, if I don't believe I'm helping my students towards a fuller and more empowering relationship with the world, then I'll resign.
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I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
