Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.
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Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether those prophets are Mohammed, God's peace and blessing be upon Him, or Moses or the other prophets of the Books.
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I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers.
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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
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The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.
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Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.
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I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.
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In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It's easier to write a story about the guy who made it to the top, but the middle is so much more interesting, so much more murky.
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I'm often reassured in a bizarre - perhaps perverse - way when I find in the archive stuff that contradicts what my assumptions have been. That's interesting and exciting.
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Make no mistake about it. Gun control is not about crook control. It's about America control.
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An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.
