Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
Using leverage to cure the problems of too much leverage is not homeopathy, it is denial. The debt crisis is not a temporary problem, it is a structural one. We need rehab.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
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When you're first learning how to do eyeliner, it's really hard to get both lids the same. A good tip for when you're putting it on, is to make sure your elbow is on a table. Make sure your arm's really stable. And make sure you have an eye makeup q-tip to get that really sharp line.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.
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Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind.
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Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
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One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
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I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.
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I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.
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We need someone with proven conservative leadership experience, not entitlement, to be able to represent us and lead us.
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It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?
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Application-specific tokens, or app-tokens, are built on top of existing general-purpose blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum. For the first time, open-source project creators can directly monetize their open-source network.
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I never invite idiots to my house.
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A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.
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Anybody that's ever been to Israel and to Palestine knows that you can't look at a person and tell if they're Israeli or Palestinian. You can assume. But I've seen Palestinians who look Swedish, and I've seen Israelis who are black.
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Yesterday is gone forever. Make the most of today and tomorrow if you wish to make up for lost time.
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It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.
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Using leverage to cure the problems of too much leverage is not homeopathy, it is denial. The debt crisis is not a temporary problem, it is a structural one. We need rehab.
