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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I've done a few American accents. I've maybe passed a test. But I don't know if it makes things easier or not.
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Daring to wear something different takes effort.
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I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.
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The hardest part is starting. Once you get that out of the way, you'll find the rest of the journey much easier.
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(While smiling, and jokingly) You haven't come to see me for three weeks. I wondered whether you had become disgusted with us war criminals - particularly me, the so-called archcriminal of them all.
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Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.
