Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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I don't want to be on the Internet.
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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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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.
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I don't believe that killing the French model in order to become the U.K. or the United States overnight is the solution. You have a big debate on inequality there, and for our society, a lot of inequality would not be bearable.
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My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'... and 'Hatchet' is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984.
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If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.
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Do not stand in the way of the next step in human progress. No one living who reads the signs of the times but realizes that woman suffrage must come. We are working for the ballot as a matter of justice and as a step for human betterment.
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Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
