Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
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There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.
Kate Winslet -
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Carl Sagan -
It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.
Laura San Giacomo -
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
Felix Adler -
Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
Adam Cohen -
If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.
Dana Carvey
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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
Vaclav Havel -
I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
Carli Lloyd -
I'm trying to get my head in the game, think about the questions I wanted to ask, breast milk is flying everywhere - over my notes - and I - how do you 'lean in' at that moment? What is the equivalent of that for Wolf Blitzer or Joe Scarborough?
Brown Campbell -
If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler
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Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
Vera Farmiga -
Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I think Irish women are strong as horses, incredibly loyal and for the most part, funny, witty, bright and optimistic in the face of devastating reality.
Fionnula Flanagan -
I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. I was giving so many pieces of myself to their movies, I thought, 'It's about time I use my own voice for me, and establish my own voice.' So I knew I wanted to make films.
Paddy Considine
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When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen -
It's always something that interests me, crafting a really perfect pop gem, but it's not a lifelong obsession. I've kind of moved beyond it. I think I needed to get that out of my system, to exorcise.
Nicholas Thorburn -
I have notebooks and sketchbooks for ideas. I also have drawers full of envelopes covered in quick outlines, scenes or scraps of dialogue that I don't want to forget. I tend to grab whatever's to hand and just get the thing down before it's lost. It's not what you would call a streamlined system.
Steven Hall -
Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
Hans Zimmer -
Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb