Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
At no point during his ordeal did Nero think of himself as 72% alive and 28% dead.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.
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In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas.
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
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It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.
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Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.
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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.
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The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.
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Only conviction sells. Well, when we are insecure, we really don't have that 100 percent conviction. Once we have it, we can tide over everything.
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Lots are written about how 'she shows up at board meetings in the saree.' My God, I have never worn a saree to board meetings; people play it out in different ways. I think I have never shied away from the fact that I am an Indian, and I don't intend to, but you can be at home with both cultures.
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Maybe some mornings, you come to my house, you'll see 'Miss Blankenship' come out of bed. I'm waiting for that spinoff.
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If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.
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I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!
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I don't know about you, but I love going on trips - especially with my family.
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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
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Sometimes when I am writing, I am aware of a rhythm, a dance, a fury, which is as yet empty of words.
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The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.
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If you happen to live close to the desert border, you can pretty much calculate how long it will be before you have to carry your kids away and abandon your home and your life as you know it.
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Comedy chose me. I always had this urge to be silly that I couldn't control. I remember my father having me read 'The Three Little Pigs' to him, and I would improv all around the story, like when one pig's house got blown over, he put on his gym shoes and took off.
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Today’s women are archaic in appearance. I want to help them coincide with their time.
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At no point during his ordeal did Nero think of himself as 72% alive and 28% dead.
