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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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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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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If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.
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The Purdue education was fine, but I wasn't ready to learn when I was at Purdue.
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I think there's something in collaboration - the fact that you can sit there and bounce ideas off of someone. It definitely matters who the person is, because certain people... The act of collaboration, where you can talk to someone, hang out, get ideas going, there is something in that. That's similar between everyone. But I think every individual collaborator is different, because they have different brains and emotions and ways of working, so it changes. Definitely.
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In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.
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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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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.
