Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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People just get kicks out of making other people sad.
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I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
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If you're a competitor, you want to win. That's enough to play for, simple as that.
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When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.
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I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to feel more free, and so I feel really claustrophobic on behalf of lots of people.
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I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.
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You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.
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Let us not forget, the financial crisis had its roots in the decision by Congress to embark on a course of social justice to get everyone that wanted a home into one, regardless of whether or not they could afford it.
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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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It's interesting: I went 25 years without watching a single television show. I was one of those people, because I was so inside how a television show was made, if I would turn on somebody else's show, I would sit there and analyze it, like, 'Oh, so they had four hours in this location and had to get out and the number of set-ups, etc.'
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Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.
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The mad, cruel, and accursed American war.
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I think with the advent of Reagan, and subsequently, both parties, there's been a strong move towards the advantage given to the richer people, in taxation and grants and supplements and things of that kind. Primarily exacerbated more recently by the Supreme Court's stupid ruling on Citizens United, and now there's a massive flood of money into the political system that I think has subverted the essence of a moral and ethical standard that used to permeate American democracy. Now it's not an admirable process. I think we've gone backwards.
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I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.
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If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.
