Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.
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A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
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My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.
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I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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One of the best ways to deal with the peer pressure of the 'Fear of Missing Out' is to opt-out whenever possible.
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All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would walk and blink how they would blink. I used to talk about it bad like, 'Aw man, that person made $10 million a movie?' But now I understand why they do. I get it now.
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God is the reason I’m surviving, but he’s sure used you in my life wonderfully. I love you.
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Society is so quick to encourage women to see each other as competition, but I think it's important we celebrate and embrace the pieces of our identity we share with others.
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Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
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We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
