Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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.
A. N. Wilson -
I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
A. J. Jacobs -
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Samuel Goldwyn -
Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
Rachael Ray -
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.
Hans Jonas -
I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
Taylor Schilling
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
Sam Harris -
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.
Yanis Varoufakis -
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.
Hansika Motwani -
God doesn't know things. He is things.
D. H. Lawrence -
At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
Carl Spitteler -
The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
Orlando Bloom
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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.
Adam Clarke -
Making music is fantastic.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran -
People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
Walt Mossberg -
It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
Harrison Ford -
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.
Garrison Keillor -
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.
Dan Savage
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I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.
Abby Sunderland -
For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
Cai Guo-Qiang -
I don't want anybody to feel like they're different.
Zach LaVine -
From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.
Sanford I. Weill -
It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
Damien Hirst -
Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb