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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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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This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
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I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.
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We are no longer a nation of one church; we are a nation of many churches.
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I consider myself a man of the world; I connect very strongly with Nigeria, but I see that the work exists all over the world, and I will go where the work is.
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Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me. The little we do understand, that grain of sand our minds are capable of grasping, those ideas such as God is good, God feels, God loves, God knows all, are enough to keep our hearts dwelling on His majesty and otherness forever.
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In terms of music, each novel is different but I usually find my way into an era through the music. In this novel the New People, I listened to a lot of 90s hip-hop, which was just so genius. Also, all the musical references in the book from the Peoples Temple one and only album to Luther Vandross.
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At no point during his ordeal did Nero think of himself as 72% alive and 28% dead.
