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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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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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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I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country.
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I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.
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I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.
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Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.
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Fingerprints prove you Greystoke. Congratulations. D'Arnot.
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While economic development [in Egypt] made a few people rich, it left many more worse off. As people felt less and less free, they also felt less and less provided for.
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Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.
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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.
