Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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I can't confirm any rumors. I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I have no interest in going back to coaching.

Jimmy Johnson

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I have a center at 412 West Chicago Avenue. It's called the Jesse White Community Center and Fieldhouse. It's a state-of-the-art gymnastics facility, game room, weight room, computer lab.

Jesse White

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I've never been to film school. I had to leave this country to make a film. All they would let me do in Hollywood was be a messenger.

Melvin Van Peebles

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Louise Wilson told me she wanted to see more of the 1997 show. And so I needed to reissue that.

Matthew Williamson

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I love Weleda Skin Food and Avene's Moisture Mask, especially if I've been travelling. Weleda also makes great deodorants and body oils - my mum introduced me to them long ago.

Anna Ewers

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I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

Jean Rostand

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I think the way I love talking about my faith is through my story because I think that's all we have to work with sometimes. I think it's the most moving way to share your story, too - is what you know, what you've seen and heard and tasted and felt.

Mat Kearney

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Support the athlete, encourage the team, help the coach. That's what good track parents do.

Don Kardong

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I lived in mafia neighborhoods off and on when I was a kid. If you were in Little Italy, in East Harlem, in Brooklyn... Those neighborhoods were, in those years, dominated by mafia families. You knew it and you felt it, you know?

Don Winslow

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According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.

Brendan I. Koerner

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I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

Anthony Bourdain

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Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.

Susan Glaspell

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