Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
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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.
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
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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.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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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.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.
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Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.
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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.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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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.
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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.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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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.
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Gods always love the people who make em.
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What I do is dangerous for sponsors, dangerous for editors. But I'm really a radio kid. I grew up on radio, not TV. Ultimately, I'll probably do radio.
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I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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I think it's very important that films like Bad Hurt don't get lost in the mix of the sci-fi-kill-everything-on-the-screen-blood-dripping-down-the-walls sort of the world of the cinema that we live in.
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The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
