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....
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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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.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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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.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.
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Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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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.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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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.
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The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.
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I think my job is to try and be as honest as I can with what is in my mind and how I feel - I think that's what you're supposed to do, if you're a good writer. So I try to do that. I know I do that. I do do that.
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We know what racist people look like. They don't deny it. They just don't!
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window.
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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....
