Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
Ice Cube
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
Maimonides
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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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Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it's footwork. I constantly work on it, and it's a never-ending process.
Calvin Johnson
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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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I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.
Natasha Trethewey
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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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Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to promote and be the face of the brand. In a weird way, the story was as much the star as any of the actors, so people wanted to hear from us.
Carlton Cuse
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Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.
Karan Mahajan
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Some things never change - there will be another crisis, and its impact will be felt by the financial markets.
Jamie Dimon
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Fear shuts people down. When you feel safe, your brain is free to soar. When you feel in danger, your brain goes into survival mode, not peak performance mode. Too many people feel unsafe at work, under toxic pressures, and stretched too thin. They are literally about to snap. Within an atmosphere of trust and what I call connection, a supervisor can create conditions under which people's brains can set aside fear and fly high.
Edward Hallowell
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It’s harder to say no when you really mean it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
