Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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I don't study; I create.
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It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.
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You're either ghetto or you're not.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit.
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'Pretty Little Liars' is very all-consuming of my time, but I guess it's a great problem to have... there have been other things that have come that were on the table and then were not.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
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Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.
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People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.
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I'm a surfer. I grew up in Southern California and used to surf twice a day, every day.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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I want to stop directing so many of resources to the military budget and focus them here at home. I believe government should invest in public infrastructure.
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These are places I would want to live if God were to put our planet around another star.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals.
