Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
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Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.
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I used to work in a factory and I was really happy because I could daydream all day.
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Industries that make goods and services that people have to buy, regardless of economic circumstances, are bound to do well whatever the economic conditions.
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Our number one agenda is to get money out of politics, to drain the swamp, but not in the way that Trump said. He stacked his cabinet full of Goldman Sachs guys.
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All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
