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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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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I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.
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Looke or ye leape.
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Corner one of the hundreds of doctors who specialize in autism recovery, and they'll tell you stories of dozens of kids in their practice who no longer have autism. Ask them to speak to the press and they'll run for the door. They know better.
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You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses.
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In Britain, you know there are people waiting to tear your stuff apart, so it's important for me to know that my music has subtleties and depth to it.
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Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.
