Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
Larisa Oleynik -
At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
Gareth Gates -
I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
Vanessa Marano -
I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
Damon Galgut -
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
Taylor Hicks
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
Danica McKellar -
Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
Kate Fleetwood -
A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
Sam Rayburn -
Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
Kangana Ranaut -
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
Samuel Johnson -
The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
Dakota Johnson
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
Zinedine Zidane -
Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
Calvin Johnson -
Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
Zach Wamp -
Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
Adam Braun -
The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
Jacob Bronowski -
I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
Aaron Johnson
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One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.
Tavi Gevinson -
When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?
George Bernard Shaw -
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Albert Einstein -
Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
E. M. Forster -
I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
Bob Geldof -
A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb