Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'
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My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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I think that Americans, they love comfort more than Europeans. Americans created the T-shirt, the sweat pants, and they create the best sporting shoes.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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'Come out' is so funny to me because I've never been in.
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The importance of creativity in our country is greatly misunderstood.
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
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From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.
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There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
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April is tax month. If you are having trouble filing your taxes, then you should hire an accountant. They'll give you the same advice that they've given hundreds of corporations - taxes are for douche bags.
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When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.'
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People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.
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I left my frogs, which I had grown, with my supervisor, who had moved to Geneva, and he and a technician grew them up. So by 1962, they were adults, and one could publish a paper to say that these animals, derived from nuclear transfer, really were absolutely normal. So it took a little time to get through.
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Peace is the deepest thing a human personality can know; it is almighty.
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I was shot from the funny gun.
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I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.
