Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
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VR is going to become something mainstream, but it's not going to happen right away. You just don't have the horsepower to make it happen on a device, much less a cheap enough and comfortable enough device that a normal consumer is going to want to have.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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No two wars are identical.
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.
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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.
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I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.
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As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary.
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I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.
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I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.
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The war is definitely in the background, only referred to in radio news blips and conversation. I think, ultimately, this film is about the choices these guys are faced with. In that way, I think this is a more personal story about their friendship, about the reaction that they have when they're essentially faced with death, to a certain degree.
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If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.
