Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
Vikas Swarup
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If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
Gavin Newsom
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I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
Eddie Redmayne
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
Dane Cook
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
Carla Bley
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I know I look super young.
Rachel Bilson
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I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
S. Jay Olshansky
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
Octavia Spencer
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The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
Vera Wang
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
Nancy Gibbs
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After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.
Barbara W. Tuchman
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
Nancy Astor
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
Ralph Steadman
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
Gary Kemp
Spandau Ballet
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I don't get hung up on weight.
Jack Black
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I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
Hampton Sides
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Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.
Eden Ahbez
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Victor Hugo
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I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life.
Diora Baird
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I can't just say yes to a movie. I have to be really passionate about it.
Anya Taylor-Joy
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Diana Vreeland was "the Empress," the avatar of the age. An old name or old money were not enough to get you into Studio 54 - or Interview magazine, for that matter. You had to have a lot of something else, like looks or brains or wit or fabulous clothes.
Bob Colacello
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Where do you go to buy back your reputation when you lose it?
Peter Berg
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When I was in high school, the drama teacher picked me to play Iago in 'Othello.'
Jeff Perry
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A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
