Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.
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Anyone can look beautiful.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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I've never been in an acting class in my life.
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I don't think most people who listen to music are that interested in all the work that goes into making it. It's the artist you like.
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People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.
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I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think of one detail in the scene I'm about to write that I'm really excited about writing. Until I can come up with that one detail, I pace.
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Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.
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My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.
