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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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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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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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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I'm happy for the success that I've had, but I've worked so hard at it.
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It feels nice to be loved, but let me tell you there are 10 times more better looking, stylish and talented guys than me. So there's no solid reason for me to be proud! I don't think I have done anything extraordinary to change people's lives.
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I think that America is a nation of faith. I do believe that. Certainly by way of heritage - there's a powerful Christian thread through all of American history.
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“It's a queer thing, growing up. The years pile up, Hap, but at the same time I'm still ever age I ever was. When we stood before those sea-giants, I felt five years old, awed and scared. When I see a pretty lady, I'm eighteen again! And when my bones remind me, I feel all of my sixty years. All those ages are still inside me, all at once. The years stack up like sediment, and the layers remain.”
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Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.
