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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I understand how hard rock fans feel inside out, because I was one of those people.
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So there was not an "I" anymore - not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect - save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more.
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If you are worried or afraid of anything, there is something in your mental attitude that needs correction.
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I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.
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At no point during his ordeal did Nero think of himself as 72% alive and 28% dead.
