Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
Tara Strong -
The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.
Edgar Wright -
I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
Haley Bennett -
The retirement timing is always a tricky thing for a dancer. I think it's different for everyone. How you say goodbye to the thing you have really focused on that much is a tough one. I've always intended to leave in good shape, to exit on a high note.
Damian Woetzel -
I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
Rachel Sklar
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
Hans Rosling -
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
W. Clement Stone -
The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
Ian Mcewan -
What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
Ovid -
I'm usually bikini-ready all year round.
Candice Swanepoel -
I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
Patrick Swayze
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
e. e. cummings -
It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
Nalo Hopkinson -
I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!
Camille Pissarro -
When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence.
Randy Quaid -
I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
Paris Hilton -
People willy-nilly borrow for consumption. Civil servants willy-nilly borrow for consumption and then wonder why they don't have enough money at the end of the month.
Najib Razak
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I just write the way I feel, and if it feels good to me, hopefully everybody likes it.
David Bryan Bon Jovi -
In 1970, the developed nations had twice as big a share of the global population as the Muslim world: 30 percent to 15 percent. By 2000, they were at parity: each had about 20 percent.And by 2020?
Mark Steyn -
When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
Zach Anner -
They that know God will be humble,They that know themselves cannot be proud.
John Flavel -
I don't know if it's a actor thing or just growing as an adult, but the best thing I've learned is that everyone wants to do a great job, and everyone wants you to do a great job, too!
Christie Laing -
The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb