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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I am a greedy actor in the sense that I like the big bites. Put a big fat steak in front of me, and I will eat it.
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Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.
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Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.
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In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.
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We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
