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 don't really see the logic behind it. I just hope that a lot of these guys don't pull up with injuries. There's a difference between getting ready for a season and getting ready for a season that's going to last three weeks.
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I feel like, looking back, if I didn't have so many injuries, who knows where my numbers could be right now. But only God can judge me.
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Doubt is the enemy of mania. It's trying to get aloft strung with weights. The moment I like writing is three sentences in, when somehow those weights drop away, and you can invent. I cannot tell you the dread I have.
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A system that works for one person won't be perfect for another... Individuality is a major part of expanding knowledge.
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It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.
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I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
