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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Being faster would probably make me better at football.
Frank Lampard -
Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.
Cato the Elder -
Tech companies approach you to hold something in a picture and then say, 'This is what I want you to write on your Twitter.' There are people who get away with that and look really cool doing it, but I'm just not one of them.
Alexa Chung -
We want to encourage people. You are not just another kid in the youth group or the lady on the third row. God has a purpose for every life.
Mark Hall Casting Crowns -
When I was a Senator from New York, I represented and worked with so many talented principled people who made their living in finance. But even thought I represented them and did all I could to make sure they continued to prosper, I called for closing the carried interest loophole and addressing skyrocketing CEO pay. I also was calling in '06, '07 for doing something about the mortgage crisis, because I saw every day from Wall Street literally to main streets across New York how a well-functioning financial system is essential.
Hillary Clinton -
People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb