Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
Maj Sjowall -
Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
Yakov Smirnoff -
Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
Kate Mulgrew -
You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club -
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
Natalie Portman
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
J. D. Vance -
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
Jack Henry Abbott -
After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
Saina Nehwal -
People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
Larry Ellison
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
Randy Harrison -
Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
Gabrielle Giffords -
A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
Sam Graves -
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
Ramana Maharshi -
I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
Iggy Azalea -
You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.
Imogen Poots
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Tasmania is famous for its shape, which is the same shape as the pubic hair region on a woman's body, which I personally don't identify with. Mine's more like a map of the former Soviet Union. Not to scale.
Hannah Gadsby -
I will not be presumptuous enough to say that my life can be a role model for anybody; but some poor child living in an obscure place in an underprivileged social setting may find a little solace in the way my destiny has been shaped. It could perhaps help such children liberate themselves from the bondage of their illusory backwardness and hopelessness.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
Joseph Brodsky -
I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that, but in the end, I'm just a person.
Patti Smith -
Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.
Neil Armstrong -
The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb