Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
It is the asymmetry of the bonus system that got us here. No incentives without disincentives: capitalism is about rewards and punishments, not just rewards.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
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My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward of appearance of living what he was preaching. She was the PR.
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I used to get 2000 as pocket money, and I was being offered a car and an opportunity to make lakhs, so I said a yes. I was a kid and got homesick over my 40-day schedule in Bangalore and decided that I would only do films in the South if they were 10-day roles.
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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick.
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My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.
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The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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I've been working on 'The New York Times' crossword puzzle on the subway. I can make it until about Wednesday.
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I love corduroys, because they are really comfy and they're cozier than jeans. They come in nice autumn hues - colors that you can have fun with.
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He was a hard shrewd jovial politician, whose acts of kindness served his interest and whose interest was himself. His type is panhuman. I had met him on Earth, and on Hain, and on Ollul. I expect to meet him in Hell.
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A girl has the power to go forward in her life. And she’s not only a mother, she’s not only a sister, she’s not only a wife. But a girl has the – she should have an identity. She should be recognized and she has equal rights as a boy.
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This program is not a place where personal opinion should be mixed up with ascertainable facts...It is not, I think, humanly possible for any reporter to be completely objective, for we are all to some degree prisoners of our education, travel, reading-the sum total of our experience.
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I think that the reason I became an actor, probably, underneath it, was that I spent my life acting normal.
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YouTube's algorithm doesn't know what's going on in the world.
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I like very much Louis Vuitton. My wife loves it too.
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.
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When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.
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My dad always told me that perseverance furthers. He was right.
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It is the asymmetry of the bonus system that got us here. No incentives without disincentives: capitalism is about rewards and punishments, not just rewards.
