Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
Quotes to Explore
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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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.
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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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.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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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.
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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!
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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I love anything to do with history.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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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.
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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.'
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.
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For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke... They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside.
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I want the poem to be an experience - for both the listener and for myself.
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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
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Good writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back.
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
