Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
There is a saying that bad traders divorce their spouse sooner than abandon their positions. Loyalty to ideas is not a good thing for traders, scientists - or anyone.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
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We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.
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Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.
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The thing about stand-ups is you can't really get good unless you're failing in front of a large number of people. That makes stand-up comedy unique: you need a tremendous amount of reserve within you to take the rejection from the audience, and without it, you can't do anything.
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We know our responsibilities to our investors, and one of our challenges has always been preventing foreign investors from thinking that Indonesia is not a good place to invest.
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It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
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There is a saying that bad traders divorce their spouse sooner than abandon their positions. Loyalty to ideas is not a good thing for traders, scientists - or anyone.
