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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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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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
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Wimbledon 2014 will be my last slam. To be honest, I am already starting to miss professional tennis, having played at the highest level for two decades. It is what has given me my identity, and I will miss every bit of the action. The thought that I will not be playing anymore is daunting.
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Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we're continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we've taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.
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Maddie Ziegler is the most amazing dancer I've ever seen, and I'm so obsessed with her. I was obsessed with her even before she did her first Sia video.
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The biggest challenge was the cost to play the sport, and this is a challenge that my parents faced. They relied on the community and friends and family for support, and I learned to play hockey using second hand equipment.
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I love mentoring young filmmakers and girl filmmakers.
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The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
