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 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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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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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
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My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
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I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes.
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Up until that moment, I'd been at the earliest stage of love, when you feel it will turn you into the better person you want to be. Now, his gentle voice and sage advice took me to a later stage: I felt I needed to pretend to be a better person than I was so he'd keep loving me. This was hard because it made me hate him.
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Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.
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The principle is that every member needs to represent their district.
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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.
