Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.
Otto Schily -
I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
Rachel Roy -
I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
Abigail Breslin -
When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
Sally Rand -
I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
J. J. Abrams -
How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
Valerie Plame
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
G. Hannelius -
The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
Nathalie Sarraute -
That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
Marc Almond Soft Cell -
I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
Samuel L. Jackson -
The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
Victoria Jackson -
My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
Harrison Ford
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
Fedor Emelianenko -
I don't believe in writer's block.
Gabrielle Zevin -
Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
Gary Numan -
I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
Kate Bosworth -
Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.
Ferran Adria -
There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
Malcolm Fraser
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I'm not a great student, so I don't know that I would have been a great detective. Part of my brain sort of works that way, like wanting to figure out puzzles and figure out what happened and why people do the things they do and who they are and how it happened.
Alexandra Daddario -
When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.
Don DeLillo -
What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.
Rand Paul -
I told my doctor, "I've swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills" and he told me to have a few drinks and get some rest.
Jack Roy -
I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people.
Katherine Dunham -
People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb