Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
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My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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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 will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.
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Of course there are peace-loving Muslims.
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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.
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I'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books.
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Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.
