Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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I'll be singing with The Blind Boys of Alabama, which is a great joy to me. I've done some work with them before, and they truly are amazing.
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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I can do whatever I want.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
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I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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I released that I could crank out a song if I practiced it a lot. If I am in the practice of writing songs everyday or every other day, getting ideas and following through with them, and not just saying "I've got this idea, but I will get to it at some point." If I actually sit down and not be lazy, and follow through with it then you just get in the practice of doing things. It feels very productive, and then it gets a lot easier, because you are working the muscle in your brain. The "song-writing muscle" so to speak.
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It's always great to engage with people. You never know who you can make an effect on. And I love interacting with the fans, hearing what they have to say and joking around with them. Anytime I can reach out online and give encouragement, motivate people, be a better citizen, that's what it's all about, man.
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The self (or “object self”) and the observing self.
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Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.
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Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.
