Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.
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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.
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.
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Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.
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Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right.
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I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it).
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The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.
