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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: lebanese
Birth: 1960

Topics

Quality Volatility Things Vulnerable

What you're getting excited about is not A face, but a feminine face.

Face You Excited Feminine About

The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.

Beauty Together Mountains World Kind

The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Government War Result You Now Than

My heritage is a huge part of everything I do; it is, after all, part of what has made me who I am.

I Am Me Heritage Everything Made Am

I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have.

Good Me Gift Year Play Know

I really like writing music. That's kind of like my little hobby. I like that because sometimes you don't really have any control when you're an actor, over what you're doing next, and everything is kind of decided by other people. You're always waiting to hear from people.

Music Waiting People Writing Control

The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head... The autumn wind is a Raider, pillaging just for fun.

Sea Fun Hat Weather Wind Song

Looking back, fire images have been constant in my poetry. As a boy, it was my job to light the fire each morning, and I remember the celebratory bonfires at the end of the war. It was from staring into fire that I began my first poetry.

Morning Light Fire Job War Poetry

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Paths Fame Critics Those

I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.

Birthday Good Fun People Surprise

Our players know that we try to come in each week and put ourselves in the best position to have a chance to win, and sometimes that means some people playing more than others; sometimes it means using different personnel groupings in different weeks.

Best People Win Chance Week Know

Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it up upside down. But I remember learning to sing 'Paper Doll,' the Mills Brothers song - this was during the war - and I remember my dad taking me down to one of those little record booths where you could make spoken letters to send home.

Learning Home Fool War Me Song

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