Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
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I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
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I hate feeling like a prisoner. I show up somewhere, and I can't explore the city because there's, like, 6,000 to 10,000 people on the lookout for me.
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I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.
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Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
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Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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What makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.
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Thank God for gay men. Thank God for gay men, because if it were not for gay men, I would not talk to men at all.
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My biggest disappointment is that once I'm finished working on the characters, I really do expect to see them in the flesh one day.
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What I always loved about vintage clothes is that you let the woman who wore it before you live on in some way.
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Unplanned pregnancy is an equal-opportunity affliction.
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Hogan began when tastes were changing and people were moving away from clothes that were not so formal: Hogan caught the right moment.
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No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.
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A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
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You cannot run faster than a bullet.
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There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.
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Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.
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Its going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.
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The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
