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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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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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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Bullies really bother me a lot. A lot, a lot.
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It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.
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Everybody in L.A. wants to be an actor. I just wish I could meet somebody who doesn't act or sing.
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I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.
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Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
