Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches.
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The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
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I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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My partner has to have good sized bones.
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When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.
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I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time again rejected calls to behave as responsible nations.
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When your spirit is alive, when somebody has got a strong spirit, they could be on the verge of death physically, and they'll leak out more life.
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There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the blockchain. They understand you can build a robust financial system - it would solve all your black swan problems. All kinds of mischief and games that are played in the current system become impossible in this system.
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Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.
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The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches.
