Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
Hanna Rosin -
Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
Laura Linney -
We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.
Ted Cruz -
As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
Dan Rather -
Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
Ed Miliband -
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
H. L. Mencken
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
Hans Vestberg -
Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.
Bebe Neuwirth -
Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.
Irrfan Khan -
It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
D. A. Pennebaker -
The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
Warren Buffett
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
Tate Donovan -
There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.
Haley Joel Osment -
For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
Ira Sachs -
You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
Abel Ferrara -
I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
Sam Claflin
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In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much.
Masa Takayama -
What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world.
John Charles Polanyi -
Part of me loves to control and to exert power, but it's not the best part of me at all. What I am slowly learning is that allowing others to have power too makes us a better organisation - many brains are simply better than one.
Carne Ross -
It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
Barbara Mandrell -
Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.
Albert Einstein -
The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb