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 don't go to the beach. There is no value in going to the beach. If I did go I would probably read economics books.
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Perfect love casteth out fear.
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There is a growing scientific consensus that animals have emotions and feel pain. This awareness is going to effect change: better treatment of animals in agribusiness, research and our general interaction with them. It will change the way we eat, live and preserve the planet.
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When we spoke, Gene Wilder had just written a memoir called "Kiss Me Like A Stranger." The title was suggested by his late wife Gilda Radner three weeks before she died in 1989.
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Elections do have consequences, and those we elect and far too often re-elect have forgotten how government works and for whom they work for, and that an ever growing, power hungry state and federal government are not the answer to the problem, but 80% of the time are the problem.
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At no point during his ordeal did Nero think of himself as 72% alive and 28% dead.
