Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
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If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.
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Some people think that being in government for a long time is a bad thing. But the more you stay, the more you learn. I am now an expert in governance.
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Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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I get typecast as doctors, principals, middle-management-type guys - which, when you look at me, you realize is completely against my physical characteristics. I should be an action hero. So I don't understand what's going on.
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I do have moments when I feel insecure. I do have moments when I feel jealous, and that's normal. It's a very normal emotion. It's your action and your attitude and your reaction to that that is important.
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When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.
