Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
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I'm a believer in things happening for a reason.
Fleur East
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
Mahershala Ali
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
Laura Dern
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Having principled men and women in office is how you protect yourself from tyranny, and that was something I learned from when I was 2, 3, 5 years old.
Ted Cruz
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Here's the thing: 'The Hurt Locker' was an amazing, important film. But did I enjoy it? Of course not. It was very tough to watch and, while gripping, not exactly what you'd call a happy place.
Rachel Sklar
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Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
Nathan Myhrvold
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I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.
Gabrielle Union
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To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story.
Gary Wolf
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'when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.'
A. A. Milne
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I get it, I really do, but at the same time, it's creepy. It's creepy to see fan sites about me.
Frances Bean Cobain
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With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox,It enters the dark hole of the head.The window is starless still; the clock ticks,The page is printed.
Ted Hughes
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Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws
Jim Morrison
The Doors
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It wasn't our best season. We especially didn't perform our best at the NCAA Championships.
Eddie Reese
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You don't want to start writing songs about how your Twitter followers are going up, because one day Twitter won't exist, and you'll feel like an idiot.
George Ezra
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As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
Omari Hardwick
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The final frontier of the digital technology is integrating into your own brain.
Ramez Naam
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What I have been trying to do in this book is not so much to propose a vision of what, precisely, the next age will be like, but to throw open perspectives, enlarge our sense of possibilities; to begin to ask what it would mean to start thinking on a breadth and with a grandeur appropriate to the times.
David Graeber
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The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
