Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
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I worked on the workshop of 'Topdog/Underdog' before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I'm based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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I don't write about Google except to insult the company.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.
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No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
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Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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There's nothing at the center of what we do.
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I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
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That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.
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I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.
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It's every teenager's dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.
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You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.
