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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: lebanese
Birth: 1960

Topics

You Down Nobody Know Screen Agree

I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.

Money Me Texas Thought Yesterday

When I was in Japan with my girlfriend Jessica, she would have had acupuncture every day if she could. I can just about stomach going to a chiropractor and I visited a talented one when I was there, but when he tried a needle on me, it was horrible. My muscles tightened and it didn't work at all.

Work Day Me Every Day I Can She

If you're famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don't.

People Famous You Famous People Get

Of course laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

Shirley Chisholm

Injustice Inaction Will Prejudice

When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interest your readers at all. Every writer in the world has to use the characters that have something interesting about them, and this is even more true in children's books.

Good Children People Writing World

When I'm relaxed, jeans and a shirt are my uniform.

Monica Bellucci

Uniform Jeans Shirt Relaxed

I want to be relatable. I want to be the guy that people root for.

People Want Guy Root

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

Perseverance Sacrifice You Find

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.

Bird Tree River Fish Nothing Nest

I have a half an hour warm-up I do that my voice teacher gave me. I exercise at least for an hour during the day. I don't have any superstitious rituals or anything like that.

Teacher Day Me Voice Exercise Half

If you can't define a winning exit strategy for the American people, where we somehow come out ahead, then we're wasting our money, and we're wasting our strategic resources.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Money People Winning Strategy You

It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn't always better.

Dennis Eckersley

Me Better Realize Always Years Few

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