Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
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I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.
FKA twigs
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The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.
Jack Dorsey
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The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.
Owen Chamberlain
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You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?
Haley Bennett
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Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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I'm the type of person to put myself in everybody else's shoes.
Young Thug
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Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
Walter Kerr
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I plan on working out for the first part of the day, because if I let my day get away from me, the workout is out the window!
Laura Leighton
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Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued. As soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst forth upon the world with a brilliance perhaps never known before.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.
H. L. Mencken
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All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in infering that he is an inexact man.
Bertrand Russell
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The fundamental problem is not that there are limits on voicing different opinions here. The problem is that the whole society is dying through lack of responsibility or involvement.
Ai Weiwei
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There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.
C. S. Lewis
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It's strange: I've done so many things up until I did 'Obvious Child,' including writing children's books and making 'Marcel the Shell.' To me, the through-line is incredibly clear: it all comes from wanting to be connected to my own inner voice and not wanting to be on somebody else's agenda if that means that I can't be myself.
Jenny Slate
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I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.
Brad Pitt
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When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.
Michael Birch
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It’s harder to say no when you really mean it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
