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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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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And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.
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In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what's best in my life, so if you're dating someone who doesn't want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn't be dating them.
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The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it.
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I've numerous times heard mothers in stores tell their children not to go near me.
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I'm pretty excited, this is a big, big one.
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...thousands of little children occupy sleeping quarters with parents and boarders whose every act is visible to all. Morality indeed! Society is much like the ostrich with its head in the sand. It will not look at facts and face the responsibility of its own stupidity.
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We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
