Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.
Quotes to Explore
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Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
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I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
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I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.
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Whenever I get days off, I go home, or friends and family come up. I'm in contact with them every day, so it's like we live next door, but obviously we live in two different countries. Football is my job, and everyone around me has given me the opportunity to purely concentrate on football, and everyone else worries about everything else.
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I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.
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As kids, we had no clue about the racial stuff that seemed to preoccupy adults. We just enjoyed our life as kids.
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I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.
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Young people in Israel are encouraged to design, produce and sell their products from high school. Technical universities also matter. Teach and introduce entrepreneurship courses in technical universities.
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A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.
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Meek Nature's evening comment on the showsThat for oblivion take their daily birthFrom all the fuming vanities of earth.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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I love Sherri Shepherd as Lula.
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I don't have a problem putting on or cutting weight. I would adapt my training if I'm training for a Light Heavyweight fight by using different techniques and by wearing a weight vest to get used to the extra fighting weight.
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Happiness is the freedom of choice. The freedom to choose where to live, what to do, what to buy, what to sell, from whom, to whom, when and how.
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All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.
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The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.
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The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.
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I'm a big fan of the 'Rocky' series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.
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Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.
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My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.
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Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.
