Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
You can be an intellectual yet still be an idiot. 'Educated philistines' have been wrong on everything from Stalinism to Iraq to low-carb diets.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.
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My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or the anger at him. I never experienced those feelings as a young person.
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
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My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?
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Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
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It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
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My dad is an engineer and works on green energy, so I'm very aware of what it takes to keep a modern home running and how we can simplify.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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I can have an androgynous quality.
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I think I'm a million different faces.
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Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while.
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When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
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I'm a drummer. I've been playing since I was three. I was in college bands when I was in elementary school: you'd see all these older kids and then this little kid behind the drums creating this big sound.
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All women are ambitious naturally.
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Like a great fool, I went ashore with them, and they gave me some cursed stuff they called gin, - such blasphemy I never heard! At first when they told me they had set up a great distillery of gin, I thought them very useful, clever, good men; for you know, captain, any nation might be converted by hollands; -but this was the unchristianest beastliest liquor I ever tasted, and it made me - as I feel now. Yet the foolish, idiot-people of the island think it very good, because it makes them mad-drunk, and they believe Heaven sent it; but it made me believe the devil had got amongst them.
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You can be an intellectual yet still be an idiot. 'Educated philistines' have been wrong on everything from Stalinism to Iraq to low-carb diets.
