Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.
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Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
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A president can't go to every memorial service.
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If we're doing a class project, then I'm going to be the one talking and taking the lead. I might not necessarily put all of the work in the project, but I want to help and do as much as I can and get everyone going in the right direction.
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Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
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I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
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I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
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I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
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The less somebody knows and understand himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent. For this reason our scientists are not great.
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New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.
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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
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Well, this is a surprise. If you aren't here to give me trouble, then why are you here?
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I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school's curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn't work hard enough.
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I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.
