Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
Edgar Wright -
I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
Edgardo Osorio -
I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
Sachin Tendulkar -
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving -
How does one get bored of life?
Osric Chau
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
G. Edward Griffin -
The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
Hannah Gadsby -
I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.
Oscar Levant -
In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.
Maajid Nawaz -
For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
Adam Hochschild -
I go to my kids' sports games and don't have to carry the enormous burden of secrecy with me every day. However, adrenaline still courses through my body whenever I go through passport control to another country.
Valerie Plame
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The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys -
Every girl likes to just rock out when they put music on in their room - I learned that personally when fans would tell us how much they loved to make up their own dances to Cheetah Girls songs.
Sabrina Bryan -
If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.
Wen Jiabao -
My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.
Edgar Ramirez -
Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the novels or newspaper columns.
Carl Hiaasen
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I'm famous for being nicer to my fans than anyone on the face of the Earth because I figure a) They pay my salary, and b) It's probably like a big moment in your life to meet somebody so I would say, just come on up.
James Woods -
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
Lewis Mumford -
In New York, especially, so much of your life is spent on the streets. You don't always want to be driving around in an SUV with a security guard. You want to be able to walk to a restaurant; you want to go and do things.
Megan Fox -
I did 'Love's Labour's Lost' in the theater and found it to be riotously funny.
Kenneth Branagh -
For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb