Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
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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.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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I'm usually bikini-ready all year round.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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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.
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I'm not like most comedians. I don't deal with just heckles - I'm also dealing with threats and anger. Here I am, a brown person on stage being quite blunt. I talk about white privilege; I talk about U.S. imperialistic practices; I talk about colonialism. I'm not saying things that are easy for people to laugh at.
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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I take every job on its merits.
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One thing we never did with 'Bad Company' was talk down to our reader. And we certainly don't do that with the new story, 'Bad Company, First Casualties.'
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If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.
