Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
Edith Head
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
Wayne Huizenga
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It's nice not to be too boring.
Barry Pepper
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
Xavier Niel
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
Halsey
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
Magic Johnson
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America is another name for opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
Felix Bloch
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
Barry O'Farrell
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Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
Ralph Marston
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
Patricia MacLachlan
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
W. H. Davies
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
Adam Pascal
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
Jack Hanna
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
Aaron Neville
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The life insurance industry is filled with good people who believe in their work and their companies, but who may never have challenged the assumptions underlying their efforts.
Andrew Tobias
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The most extraordinary change in Moscow was Arbat Street, the USSR's first pedestrian mall. Of course, there's something a little sad about a pedestrian mall in a nation where few people own cars- the whole damn country's a pedestrian mall.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I like to do things that you need to chip away at.
Anthony Pratt
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Babies! What a wonderful way to start people!
Mary Elizabeth Lease
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Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb