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.
Harold Pinter -
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
Paloma Picasso -
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.
Kacey Musgraves -
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.
Abraham A. Ribicoff -
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.
Pat Metheny -
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
Salman Rushdie
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
Karan Mahajan -
And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
Pamela Anderson -
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.
Brown Campbell -
I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
Zadie Smith -
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.
Aaron Klug -
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
Wayne Brady -
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.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Money is a kind of poetry.
Wallace Stevens -
If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
Dan Barber -
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
Abraham Lincoln
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With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.
Adam McKay -
Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.
D. H. Lawrence -
This album was total therapy. I'm way more at peace now. Writing these songs and saying everything we had to say makes it possible to move on.
Natalie Maines -
Never ask your employees to do something you wouldn't be willing to do yourself.
John T. Chambers -
With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.
Burt Rutan -
What they call 'play' (gym, travel, sports) looks like work.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb