Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
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When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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And all the way, to guide their chime,With falling oars they kept the time.
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After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not.
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On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.
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I just kind of change, constantly, what my focus is. So whatever is stimulating me or inspiring me at the time is what I focus on.
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'Never in my life have I seen two villages on opposite banks of a river that weren't connected by a ford.'
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I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.
