Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.
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Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.
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The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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Health food makes me sick.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
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Your kids are going to do well in the workplace of the future if they can bring creativity, if they can bring some innovation, if they can bring some entrepreneurialism.
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I'm fearless, to a degree.
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I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.
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I've never been particularly maternal.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
