Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.
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Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.
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The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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Balance is everything. And I'm not just speaking from a road perspective - even from home. My wife and I work out of the house and we always struggle to find that balance because when work is around you 24/7, it's easy to neglect the little things in life that really help us to rejuvenate or heal.
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What they call 'play' (gym, travel, sports) looks like work.
