Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
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I had more pressure when I competed in Moscow. I had no pressure in Montreal because I only went to do my routines and hoping I didn't mess it up when I was on the bar. When I came back, 10,000 people were at the airport and I thought, 'Why?' because, in my mind, I hadn't done anything different from what I used to do in my gym.
Nadia Comaneci
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
Carlos Santana
Santana
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Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.
Jack Schwartz
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For the prevision is allied Unto the thing so signified; Or say, the foresight that awaits Is the same Genius that creates.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.
Flavor Flav
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I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.
Ian MacKaye
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Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Jo Nesbo
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When I'm alone, I silently talk to God. Also, at the end of the day, I have conversations with Jesus, where I just talk about my day, my actions and give thanks for the blessings I have received. I do this, as I believe I have a friend in Him.
Krystle D'Souza
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For this relief, much thanks
William Shakespeare
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We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb