Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Saint Augustine -
Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
Ed Begley, Jr. -
I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
Nargis Fakhri -
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
Salman Rushdie -
I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
Gary Numan -
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.
Immanuel Velikovsky
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Politics is not an exact science.
Otto von Bismarck -
I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
Paloma Elsesser -
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.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
Garth Brooks -
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.
Orlando Bloom -
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.
Abraham Robinson
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OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
Nat Friedman -
I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
Hannah Storm -
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.
Tariq Ali -
There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
Frances Wright -
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Mahatma Gandhi -
At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.
Dan Quinn
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In the future, when people look back at the early days of Bitcoin, they'll say, 'It was so obvious that the ability to move money anywhere, instantly, at near-zero cost would be a huge success.
Adam Draper -
Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.
Kevin Hart -
Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.
Lionel Shriver -
Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb