Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
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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.
Taylor Schilling
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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?
D. A. Pennebaker
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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.
Zoe Saldana
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Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.
Eddie Redmayne
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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.
J. R. Moehringer
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
Samora Machel
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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.
Vidya Balan
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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.
Indra Nooyi
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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.
Randee Heller
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If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.
Sally Rand
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I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!
Aaron Yoo
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I don't know about you, but I love going on trips - especially with my family.
Becky G
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To commit a successful murder must be very much like bringing off a conjuring trick.
Agatha Christie
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I have weathered many different storms and I know who I am and my friends know who I really am.
Delta Goodrem
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Being desirous of allaying the dissensions of party strife now existing within our realm, I do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic and Republican parties, and also do hereby decree the disfranchisement and imprisonment, for not more than 10, nor less than five, years, to all persons leading to any violation of this our imperial decree.
Emperor Norton
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Everything's possible when you're seven years old." She sighed. "But then you hit an age where you decide it's cooler not to believe in anything at all.... It's called being grown-up.
Allan Frewin Jones
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[Malcolm X] had said a great deal about nonviolence, criticizing nonviolence, and saying that I approved of Negro men and women being bitten by dogs and the fire hoses, and I say, say go on and not defend yourself. I think this kind of response grew out of the build up, all of the talk about my being a sort of polished Uncle Tom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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At no point during his ordeal did Nero think of himself as 72% alive and 28% dead.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
