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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I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.
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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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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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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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What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.
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I avoided as much work as possible in the classroom, but did all the work possible on the ball field.
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You can call me whatever you want to call me, just keep hiring me.
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People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.
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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.
