Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters - you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
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I may adopt. I love children and I do feel the need to take the legacy forward. I am open to it, but emotionally you have to be ready for it. Raising a child is really a huge responsibility. And I should have that time and emotional energy to give to child. How and when is a decision my mother and I will take a few years from now.
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When I feel my blood sugar getting off, I drink a glass of kale juice. It's so disgusting you don't want to eat anything!
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I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.
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The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.
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And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.
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I've got the Xbox 360, a Wii, and a PlayStation 3. I got everything you could think of.
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I'm a fake intellectual.
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In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
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I think Gotye is really dope. The music that I enjoy listening to isn't as intense as my music is.
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I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.
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Yeah, I've always considered myself a musical person.
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At 15 I had moved out of my parents' place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting thing and I just wanted to be able to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.
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A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.
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Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.
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Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
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This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters - you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.
