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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotes to Explore
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.
Barry Jenkins
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus
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.
Tadashi Shoji
Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
Sachin Tendulkar
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.
Natasha Trethewey
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.
Karan Johar
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!
Naomi Klein
I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.
Oleg Deripaska
And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
Laetitia Casta
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.
A. Whitney Brown
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.
Natalie Cole
I've got the Xbox 360, a Wii, and a PlayStation 3. I got everything you could think of.
Larry Fitzgerald
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.
Barbara Demick
I think Gotye is really dope. The music that I enjoy listening to isn't as intense as my music is.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.
Faith Prince
To me, skin is alien and kind of weird; it weirds me out. It's strange, but it's also really intimate and personal; it's living, organic. That's how I want the music to sound; I want it to feel alien and strange, but also like it's got a heartbeat, like it's got a soul, like it's not made by a robot.
Flume
I could become a Gold Glove-caliber shortstop. Not as talented as Vizquel, but definitely on par with Jeter.
Ichiro Suzuki
Is this some kind of fucking radio promotion? What the fuck is this? Let me just say that if whatever said radio station tries to blacklist us for my comments about their balloons, I would like them to know I want a written apology tomorrow for interrupting my song.
Jack White
The White Stripes
