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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Heat radiated off Henry's face. Salty snot ran down his upper lip. A majestic fart propelled him to the top of Section 12, just at the springing of the stadium's curve. He slapped the sign as if high-fiving a teammate. It gave back a game shudder. He was crusing now, darkness be damned, stripping off his sweatshirt and his long underwear top without breaking stride.
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The only time I did not know how to be, physically, was when I lost a lot of weight. That was the only time I didn't understand my body.
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You look at who's actually created shows for FX that have succeeded, and there are a lot of first-time showrunners - Ryan Murphy, Denis Leary, Louis C.K., the 'It's Always Sunny' creators, Kurt Sutter, Joe Weisberg, Pamela Adlon, Donald Glover.
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To achieve a more balanced international system over time, countries with excessive and unsustainable trade surpluses will need to allow their exchange rates to better reflect market fundamentals.
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After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No.
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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.
