Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
Nastassja Kinski -
Nice to see your home fans boo you. That's what loyal support is.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us.
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I believe that a dream un-followed turns into all kinds of bad things in the lives of those who don't pursue them.
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In all this world, I pray thee, who Is virtuous, heroic, true?
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My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.
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Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
