Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don’t have the guts to sometimes say: I don’t know....
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
Barrett Foa
I like to do the splits onstage.
Gavin DeGraw
To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
Yves Chauvin
Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
Lance Armstrong
To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
Ian Botham
The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
Victor Garber
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C. S. Lewis
Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
Pamela Anderson
It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
Kate Atkinson
Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
Kate Bosworth
We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
Valerie Harper
I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.
Patricia MacLachlan
I would go to the store, I would buy cassette tapes, and I would read the liner notes and sort of subconsciously creating the connections between the rappers that I was reading and the poets that they were teaching us in school.
Jason Reynolds
My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.
Judy Collins
From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.
Luke Bryan
Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
Owen Feltham
Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
Magic Johnson
My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don’t have the guts to sometimes say: I don’t know....
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
