Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
The casino is the only human venture I know where the probabilities are known, Gaussian (i.e., bell-curve), and almost computable.
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I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.
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I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.
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Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food is only going to be as good as the sum of its parts, like anything else.
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If it were true that special favors were given to some of these people because they are my cronies, then they should still be here, and they should be wealthy. But who are these cronies? If there be any cronies in government, point them out, and we will investigate.
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You're an artist when you're writing, a businessperson the rest of the time.
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The word vagina is a beautiful word, like all words that have v's and g's in them, like gavel, or evangelical. I love vaginas, and evangelicals. I fucking hate gavels though.8
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The world as a whole is full of problems and difficulties and it is most important that every country which loves its Freedom and wants to maintain its Independence and sovereignty should work for peace and try to see that there is disarmament in the world which alone will lead to real peace.
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If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.
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How did we become so intrigued by risk – and so worried about it at the same time?
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To make a bank was a great plot of state;Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.
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I'm more like a spoon symbol. I think women just want to spoon me.
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The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is done.'
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Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
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I think when you have kids, it definitely makes you look at things from a different perspective, but I think that the biggest thing it's done is it's made me look at things from a different perspective from a professional standpoint in how you analyze things and how you look at things and how you react to things.
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If a sanctuary city means that our police department does not enforce federal immigration laws, then we are one. But declaring yourself a 'sanctuary city' also signals to a lot of people that you are protecting hard-core criminals, which I don't, and I don't believe in.
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The casino is the only human venture I know where the probabilities are known, Gaussian (i.e., bell-curve), and almost computable.
