Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday; I'm learning so much from her.

Joanne Woodward

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Every Republican president starting with Lincoln - and for almost 100 years thereafter - generally supported tariffs, while Democrats tended to promote free trade.

Robert Lighthizer

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The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.

Robert Moog

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Chinese people have that superstitious fix - people always do feng shui when they are opening a shop; even the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank pays people to do feng shui for them.

John Rocha

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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

John Quincy Adams

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A decision by Germany's highest court that banned the display of crosses or crucifixes in classrooms has sparked widespread outrage and protest.

Stephen Kinzer

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I really did grow up in a world where we were taught that crime doesn't pay and we stood up when the teacher came into the room.

Stanley R. Jaffe

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As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't exactly present with you.

Tom Irwin

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What makes art in general, and literature in particular, remarkable, what distinguishes them from life, is precisely that they abhor repetition. In everyday life, you can tell the same joke thrice and, thrice getting a laugh, become the life of the party. In art, though, this sort of conduct is called 'cliche.'

Joseph Brodsky

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I'm a big gamer. I know the lead time and how long it takes to develop a game and how hard it is to get it right.

Jonathan Nolan

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You get the part, sign the contract and start to realize millions of people follow this guy and know more about your character than you do.

Chris Hemsworth

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If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.

Bob Hoskins

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