Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
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Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.
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Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.
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We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
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I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
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I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay there forever.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.
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Despite the situation in Cuba, I had a chance to play on the national team; and compared to other baseball players and other people in Cuba, I had the opportunity to live at a level that was not very high class but in the middle.
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Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.
