Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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I'm extremely superstitious.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
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When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
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I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.
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I have always loathed working out.
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People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.
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If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.
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I'm really interested in vegan nail polishes, because a lot of nail polishes have a lot of toxins in them.
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Nature is under control but not disturbed.
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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
