Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.
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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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When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.
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There've been a lot of great players to play the game of baseball that never got an opportunity to go to the World Series, ... and I was hoping that I wasn't going to be another one of them.
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It's very easy for me to keep a low profile because the focus I feel is always on the music. Success and fame are two different things. And so I feel the success is always towards the music, which means that I can have a very normal and private lifestyle.
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Success is just being able to do what I love for a living, spend all my time doing it, connect with fans, and continue that for a long f - king time.
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Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.
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Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.
