Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
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Im not your biggest girly girl.
Maggie Siff
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye
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I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
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Inauguration Day is like two ships passing in the night: the new staff moving in while the other walks out, taking one final look at the White House lawn as they leave with their cardboard box of possessions.
Dana Perino
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During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
Rachel Swirsky
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I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.
Barbara Mandrell
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You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.
Carl Honore
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
Hannah Cowley
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The guest to me was always paramount.
Larry King
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I don't expect anybody to know who I am.
Nathan Fillion
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Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like the majority.
Nate Parker
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I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
Charles de Lint
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Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the arc of the story, first... You can't do anything without a story arc. Where is it going to begin, where will it end.
Elizabeth George
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God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings for the critic, but at second-hand they can be of small service to you.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.
George Washington
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Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
