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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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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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 felt very at home in California, but the place is prone to earthquakes, and the one in 1994 scared the life out of me. For months afterwards, I felt that every time I sat down, I should have put on a seatbelt.
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You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.
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I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.
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The assertion fallacy ... is the fallacy of confusing the conditions for the performance of the speech act of assertion with the analysis of the meaning of particular words occurring in certain assertions.
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There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.
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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.
