Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.
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I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.
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RE: GSEs like Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae: "creditors will continue to underprice the risk-taking of these financial institutions, overfund them, and fail to provide effective market discipline Facing prices that are too low, systemically important firms will take on too much risk."
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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If the weather is nice, I play tennis, which is pretty much the only exercise that I do. I try to do that as much as I can.
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Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
