Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.
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My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.
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I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.
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Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.
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I felt okay for the first 45 seconds, and then my vision grew fussy. My lungs felt like deflated balloons. I would have sucked oxygen through my ears, if that were possible. I was experiencing oxygen debt, or perhaps better stated, oxygen death.
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She had little doubt that whatever happened to her on this drifting ship was of scant interest to a God who could allow her to reach this sorry state in the first place.
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
