Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
Larry Fitzgerald -
I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
Quentin Tarantino -
I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
Marat Safin -
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
W. H. Auden -
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 -
If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
Natalia Tena
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
Olly Murs -
My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
Nancy Pelosi -
Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
M. C. Escher -
Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
Fidel Castro -
An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
Samuel Alexander -
I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
Ed Rendell
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
Kaley Cuoco -
Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
Ma Jun -
Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
Iman -
I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
Jackie Chan -
If I'm not doing anything, I get really antsy and bored.
Nat Wolff -
Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it.
Marc Ribot -
I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.
James Weldon Johnson -
Those rosy memories we all share are actually memories from our favorite TV shows. We've confused our own childhoods with episodes of "Ozzie and Harriet," "Father Knows Best," and "The Brady Bunch." In real life, Ozzie had a very visible mistress for years, Bud and Kitten on "Father Knows Best" grew up to become major druggies, and Mom on "The Brady Bunch" dated her fifteen-year-old fictional son.
Cynthia Heimel -
People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.
Philip Yancey -
Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.
Cass Gilbert -
Half of life-the interesting half of life-we don't even have a name for.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb