Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
A man is morally free when... he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. This is not just an aim but an obligation.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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I love anything to do with history.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.
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Readers prefer a world they can relate to.
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I have a 6-year-old niece who doesn't look like the majority of girls on the covers of magazines. I hope that by the time she's 16, the world will have changed.
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I was a weird kid. It wasn't until I saw 'Aguirre: The Wrath of God' at 16 that my whole world changed. The obsession with that was equal to the obsession with writing.
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A man is morally free when... he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. This is not just an aim but an obligation.
