Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
Just as dyed hair makes older men less attractive, it is what you do to hide your weaknesses that makes them repugnant.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
Gail Parent -
It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
Jacki Weaver -
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
C. S. Lewis -
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw -
It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
Mandy Moore
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
Taylor Momsen -
I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'
Kate Winslet -
The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
Fabrizio Moreira -
Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.
J. G. Ballard -
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I absolutely love working with David Boreanaz, and Charisma Carpenter I completely adore – she teaches me to dance.
J. August Richards
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
N. T. Wright -
There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.
Randeep Hooda -
When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
Victoria Osteen -
One thing is for sure: a World Cup without me is nothing to watch.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.
H. G. Bissinger
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I love the idea of live theater the best because you are sitting there with the community in the dark, looking at the light, and that's really - you can't get any higher than that.
Kenny Leon -
Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and ambiguous medium. On the other hand, I trained as a documentary filmmaker in film school, so my films very much reflect reality and socio-political problems. They're less subtle I would say.
Xiaolu Guo -
In the beginning, in 2003, there was the Iraqi resistance, which didn't want the US occupation, then they developed Al Qaeda, but even then it was never this monstrous, this inhumane and as misogynistic as what we're seeing now under ISIS.
Yanar Mohammed -
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.
Marilyn French -
If what the philosophers say be true,-that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain,-so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage.
Epictetus -
Just as dyed hair makes older men less attractive, it is what you do to hide your weaknesses that makes them repugnant.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb