Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook.
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As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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I'm not cool - quite the opposite. I'm a real geek.
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You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.
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Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
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But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
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Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.
