Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
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The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
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Making music is fantastic.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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The uncontrolled increase of the euro rate vis-a-vis the dollar threatens employment growth in the euro area.
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Establish who you are, and don't let anybody dress you up or change the way you are, and stay true to yourself.
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We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.
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The story behind 'Check Point' is what drew me in. The script had a couple of twists that I really did not see coming... To get out there and raise people's awareness, I think there's a big responsibility in that.
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We actually have been toying around with a theatrical element. We even had outfits that we wore on stage for the last tour. But I think when people come to see us they ultimately expect a rock show, so we're pulling back on that aspect a bit. We do play in front of a backdrop, though.
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Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse.
