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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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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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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There are certainly moments in the story room where you watch the movie die on the table. You put A next to B, and suddenly none of it lines up anymore. We feel that all the time. It's a terrible feeling.
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So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.
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Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.
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The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.
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Everybody right now, they look at the current technology, and they think, 'OK, that's what artificial neural nets are.' And they don't realize how arbitrary it is. We just made it up! And there's no reason why we shouldn't make up something else.
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I'm also disappointed in the Democrats that Hillary Clintom was the best they could get - It just keeps going back to Bush's and Clinton's - I'm sick of 'em! Even Jeb Bush was hanging in there for a minute.
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It was a pleasure to burn.
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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.
