Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
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I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.
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There is no empirical evidence to suggest that ageing in humans has been modified by any means, nor is there evidence that it is even possible to measure biological age. And nothing has been demonstrated to be true when it comes to anti-ageing medicines.
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I do my best to work out 5 days a week. There are times when I can only get in 3 days a week because I am traveling or just need rest due to a hectic schedule. But working out is always a priority, and if I fall off due to my schedule, it is not long before I get back on track.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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I'm an emotional guy.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think 'Party Monster' is one of those.
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I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.
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I want the type of career where I can come back to theater. Theater is my home. Theater, to me, is like ballet for dancers. It's my foundation.
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I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd try out theater, and that was the last time I did sports.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.
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The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
