Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.
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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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If you come from a military culture, and you go into see the general or the commander, and he talks to you very calmly and says, 'I'm very disappointed in you,' that's devastating.
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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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I'm not a great band member; I'm more of a band leader.
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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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As long as 1911, when I was still a member of the Socialist Party, I wrote that the Gordian knot of Trent could be cut only by the sword. At the same date I declared that war is usually the prelude to revolution. It was therefore easy for me, when the Great War broke out, to predict the Russian and the German revolutions.
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I can't really say how big the cult is. But I'm proud of it. I'm proud that it has a life.
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The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.
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Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
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Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.
