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 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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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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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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I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.
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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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Para ser grande, sê inteiro: nadaTeu exagera ou exclui.Sê todo em cada coisa. Põe quanto ésNo mínimo que fazes.Assim em cada lago a lua todaBrilha, porque alta vive.
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A blockhead, bit by fleas, put out the light,And chuckling cried, 'Now you can't see to bite.'
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Who Am I?
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He was a skater boy. She said: 'see you later, boy'. He wasn't good enough for her. Now, he's a superstar. Slamming on his guitar, to show pretty face what he's worth.
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'Ridin' up in them GTO's and 4-4-2's, Grand Prix's, S.S's, causes we so so cool'
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I'd like to see you out in the moonlight.I'd like to kiss you way back in the sticks.I'd like to walk you through a field of wildflowers.And I'd like to check you for ticks.
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One of the things that has been truly incredible to observe though, is the amount of venture investment that has gone into early stage security technology.
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Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.
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Everything starts with God in my career, and it will finish with God.
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No one in the group was really growing up besides me, which is pretty weird 'cause there was no one in that group more self-destructive than I was.
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If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.
