Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
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I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.
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I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
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We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.
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Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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In the Middle East, we don't have the luxury to indulge in fantasy.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.
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I am a private human.
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At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.
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I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.
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Ideally, writing ought to be like riding a bicycle: something you know how to do without having to think consciously about exactly what it is that you are doing.
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I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.
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I became interested in film making at around 16, when I discovered a friend of mine had a HI 8 camera which belonged to his father, which we were forbidden to use.
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You know, I read the papers and I watch the news a lot. I watch 'Dateline' and '48 Hours'. And I think we have a tendency to become terrified of one another, thinking that there is a serial killer that is on either side of you.
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The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.
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An option hides where we don't want it to hide.
