Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
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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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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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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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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.
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It's a cultural question. Will people want to share cars?
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I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.
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If you have children and you hear about a child being kidnapped, it makes you really appreciate your own children. It makes you want to spend time with them. But I think anything that shakes you out of your daily patterns in a good thing.
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
