Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
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One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.
Irvine Welsh
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I love the States and their attitudes about entertainment.
Gary Carr
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
Danica Patrick
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I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
Vince McMahon
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.
Halsey
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
Caleb Carr
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I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.
Magnus Carlsen
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The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
Carly Fiorina
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I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.
Zach Johnson
The Fray
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
Adam Levine
Maroon 5
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I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.
Nate Berkus
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The thing about New York is you can leave your house without a plan and find the day. You can't do that in Los Angeles. You need to get in your car, all this, you can't just drive around like a lunatic. In New York, you can literally walk outside, and wind up anywhere.
Michael Rapaport
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
Warren Bennis
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The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.
Aristotle
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Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Wealth without goodness is a worthless increase,
and goodness needs substance.
Callimachus
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Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
