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'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 -
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
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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 -
I don't believe in writer's block.
Gabrielle Zevin
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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 -
Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
Owen Glendower -
This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
Eddy Arnold -
But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
Karl Rove
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If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.
Jimmy Doolittle -
You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.
Brian Tracy -
Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.
Donald Trump -
Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white. And they did so on the same campus—and at the very same time—that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.
Rebecca Skloot -
The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.
J. C. Ryle -
People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb