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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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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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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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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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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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.
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I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.
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I got lost a lot, and I was a really bad waitress... I got lost on the subway.
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The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
