"I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that."

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#School Quotes #Daydreaming Quotes #Hated Quotes

“Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.”
“Not bad in short, though the last one [understanding the language of animals], isn't half as useful as you might expect, since when all's said and done the language of the beasts tends to revolve around: a) the endless hunt for food, b) finding a warm bush to sleep in the evening, and c) the sporadic satisfication of certain glands. (Many would argue that the language of human kind boils down to this too)”
“Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.”
“I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.”
“I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.”
“It is a question in that case of breaking up one piece of art, and whether that piece of art can be as best as possible put back together. So it's an argument to say, maybe that's one of those instances, like the bust of Nefertiti, I think that should be given back [Egyptian piece currently in Neues Museum in Berlin]. It's one of those pieces you look at and think that would probably be the right thing to do.”
“When things go bad, it's easy to point fingers. People who attempt to switch the blame are afraid to fail. We've all been afraid to fail before a game, but it shouldn't stop us from continuing, and from doing what we have to do to get the job done.”
“Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.”

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