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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: lebanese
Birth: 1960

Topics

Money Rich Better You Accept Only

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

Man Three Thinks He Every Man Every

I worked at this bike shop called Rockville BMX, and I started going on this summer tour with this one company. One summer, we ended up in California, and I got to hang out with the guys who made 'Freestylin' - Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman.

Bike Summer California Company Out

But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.

Service People Public Service Person

Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.

Beautiful Look Sometimes Stage See

I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters.

Complicated Damaged Characters Drawn

I don't think for a second that I'm the best at anything, but I know I'm really good at quite a lot of things because I work hard.

Martine McCutcheon

Work Good Best Work Hard Think Know

As great a spectacle as WrestleMania is, there's something to be said for seeing a guy you like telling stories from the heart from 20 feet away.

Heart Great Feet You Seeing Said

The fact is that, in all prisons everywhere, cruelties on the one hand and injudicious laxity of discipline on the other have at times appeared and will, at intervals, be renewed except the most vigilant oversight is maintained.

Discipline Will Hand Fact Most

Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.

Good Vision World Free Prosperity

We're all making decisions to make ourselves happy and our families happy. That doesn't take away what we've done together and the special bond that we created and the special bond that we have and just all the memories that we had together. That will never change. As you move forward, you appreciate those moments and keep going forward.

Change Memories Keep Going Together

I don't give away my shoes to celebrities for free. I'm only happy when people like what I do and make the effort to buy them. I would not be happy to see people in my shoes if I knew that they had to be paid to do it, that they had to be pushed.

Christian Louboutin

Shoes Effort Happy People Be Happy

I have a beer belly.

Christy Turlington

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