Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
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I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.
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The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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If we end up with war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran at the same time, can anyone see a more damaging prospect for America's world role than that?
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
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I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'
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Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
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It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.
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Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.
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I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.
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If you've been on the covers of some magazines and been in a few movies that have been seen by people, for some reason, women seem to be drawn to you.
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A relatively young woman is perceived as younger than a relatively young man.
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Commit yourself to an organization or cause that genuinely fires you up.
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You know what enormous harm we have been dealt by the publication of Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago. Everybody who has read your book, everybody who has seen the reviews are convinced that the potential harm from your 'Life and Fate' would be far more dangerous than that of Doctor Zhivago.
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So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.
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It is important to call on God to intervene in our life, especially when we reach the point where we ourselves have become helpless.
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I don't like showboating. I was never a fan of showing off.
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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
