Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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It's mad because as a woman, you carry the baby for nine months, so you're very conscious that you have a little one inside you. But for a guy, it's suddenly, there's a baby there.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I'm a believer in things happening for a reason.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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Now, I've changed my life to make sure I work only on what I love.
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I would like to see an end to war, poverty, and unnecessary human suffering. But I can't see it in a monetary-based system where the richest nations control most of the world's resources.
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In the midst of life we are in debt.
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I was not going to balance the budgets on the backs of communities.
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Actors will always tell you it's more fun playing bad guys. A lot of the time, it's criminals who are the people who don't care. There's something extraordinarily seductive about the guy who doesn't care, and to play that guy is terribly empowering, because you don't have to worry about the consequences of your actions.
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The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
