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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: lebanese
Birth: 1960

Topics

Economics Right Economists Anything

All of those years, I felt like 'Heaven's Gate' was a beautiful, fantastically colored balloon tied to a string fastened to my wrist, so the balloon could never fly.

Beautiful Fly Heaven Never Balloon

Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I've loved and am thankful for that chapter.

Life Love Good Music Thankful Past

You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.

You Go Gettysburg Take Arizona Off

If I've got a script, you think I'll go to Hollywood to get money? I was bored with the people around me, so I just created my own movie, my own character. I'm the story of my own movie, and you know what? My movie is going to be better.

Character Money People Me Better

There are a lot of battles to face, and if I didn't have that religious core - that base to turn to - I would be truly lost.

Face Lost Battles Turn Core Would

I was working with Bryan Cranston in 'All the Way.' We were about to make an entrance together - I was Hoover, he was LBJ - and he says to me, 'You should play the brother in 'Better Call Saul.' I was like 'What?' and it was time to go on. I'm doing the scene, and I can't think of what Hoover's supposed to say.

Time Together Brother Me Better You

It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing.

Time Writing Out Little Started Pad

Democracy - or any improvement on it - will rest on the layman's right to criticize. His criticism will be often - very often - damn silly, but if, like Plato and the Fascists, we take away his right to criticize, we take away his right to appreciate.

Improvement Democracy Rest Criticism

It's a very big collaborative effort to do an animated feature and to do a Broadway show.

Jonathan Freeman

Effort Big Broadway Show Very

I am not a very complex person. I believe in simplicity.

I Am Simplicity Believe Person Very

President Bush gave me a tremendous opportunity to serve as the vice president. I enjoyed very much having the opportunity to be a part of his team. He told me at the outset, he wanted me to sign on to be a part of his team - and he was true to his word, kept it. He was tough. He was decisive. He was also a pretty good politician.

Good Opportunity Me Team Tough True

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you.

Life Religion People Suits You Go

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