Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing ...
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Could you imagine being from Siberia? Like, a small part of Russia, where it's like, 'When was the last time Russia was having a super big international pop star in the U.S.?' I don't know, but I can name a few from Sweden. I think that gives us a lot of confidence in being pop stars because we're like, 'Oh, we actually can. We know we can.'
Zara Larsson
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
Katha Pollitt
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
Eberhard Weber
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
Florence King
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
Rafael Nadal
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
Nathalie Sarraute
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When I was a young executive, I was always nervous that my idea wouldn't be great. So I asked around, 'What do you think of this?' That became my filter for whether my idea was good enough. Then I realized it just plain made me smarter.
Bonnie Hammer
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There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way.
Frances McDormand
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Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You can do more, you can always do more.
Dan Marino
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I'm glad to know that I can host the 'Today' show for 16 years and not be a trending topic. And all the sudden I'm on 'Royal Pains,' and I'm a trending topic. There's something a little strange about that.
Matt Lauer
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This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing ...
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
