Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.
Quotes to Explore
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.
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If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.
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In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.
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OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
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Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
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We have to continue our progressive struggle and defeat the conspiracies of dictatorship.
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Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.
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Next thing you know they'll take your thoughts away.
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Success for me is being comfortable, and not in terms of a certain level of financial status, but that comfort comes from within.
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Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.
