Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
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I want to help people; that's it.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
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I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with 'Glee,' there's no element of competition. No one's trying to dance better than anyone. But there's that added pressure of, 'So many people are going to watch 'Glee' this week. If I don't nail this dance, I look like an idiot.'
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I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.
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When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.
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I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.
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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
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When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
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I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
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It's all matchups, and I knew that I matched up well against 'Rumble' Johnson.
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I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.
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Life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it.
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In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.
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For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.
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There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
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When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.
