Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
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The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.
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But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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I have to be fully committed to do a project nowadays, because if I say yes to something, it means the whole family are going to have to move for the job. It's a lot of upheaval. So, it has to be really worth it. Otherwise, I'd just as well not bother.
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Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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There's always a negotiation that goes on to persuade people we are coming to the subject with an open mind but without surrendering too many pawns. We don't want to misrepresent the fact that we will draw our own conclusions.
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I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.
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I'm sometimes critical about other artists who come out with something different until maybe I hear the music. If the music is there, then they did their job, and I'll enjoy the CD.
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Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
