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 think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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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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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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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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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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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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If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
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We don't really think that much about what we do; it's just fun.
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If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.
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Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
