Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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At age 26, I was chairman of UB Group but living like a 26-year-old. I lived my age. Which youngster doesn't like a Ferrari? Which youngster doesn't like a good time?... but my contemporaries were R. S. Goenka and Dhirubhai Ambani, captains of the industry but twice my age. You wouldn't necessarily expect them to be driving around in Ferraris.
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You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.
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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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The main interest of most members of the Christian Coalition is the breakdown of the family. I think that's our biggest problem, and if the whole country was as concerned and active in issues of the family as members of the Christian Coalition are, we'd probably be better off as a country.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
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As a kid, my dad would take me to see indie films when I would visit him in New York. Films that I just wouldn't see growing up in the Bay Area.
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I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.
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I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.
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The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.
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Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It's a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the world. It's a story about resiliency, and sacrifice, and perseverance. And you're damn right it's a true story.
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I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
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KRS One and LL Cool J are the biggest influences in my rap career, along with Heavy D.
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Well, I'm wrestling alligators.
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Each person's voice is very different, so you need to find what works for you. Make sure you keep to your routine.
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I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.
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There are no words to describe what it would mean making the Olympic team.
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It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.
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Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.
