Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
Gary Cole
There is a disturbing reincarnation of socialist and nationalist dictatorships raising their heads around the world and even in our own back yard. You see it in places like Venezuela and Bolivia, stoked in no small part by Cuba, and also in Central Asia, and troubling trends in Russia and China.
Sam Brownback
I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.
A. Scott Berg
At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
Yannick Noah
I don't think you should limit what you read.
Nate Silver
There's a system in place in Nashville, and for a long time, I was trapped in this idea that the only way to do it was to come to town, get a record deal, and do it the way they say. And that system works. But it caters to a specific kind of artist, and I didn't necessarily fit that mold.
Sam Hunt
Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.
Tamara Taylor
Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.
Victoria Legrand
Beach House
When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
Dale Murphy
It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren't many theatres in New York who will do them, aside from Roundabout.
Laila Robins
My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
Zaha Hadid
I'm not gonna ride home in the car. I'll wait for Randy. I think I'll get home quicker.
Patsy Cline
Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
G. I. Gurdjieff
I just wanted to experiment with the bass, and my main influence from Jaco Pastorius inspired me to write music in a certain way.
Robert Trujillo
Metallica
I was only one woman alone, and had no power to move to action full-fed, sleek- coated, ease-loving, pleasure-seeking, well-paid,and well-placed countrymen in this war- trampled, dead, old land, each one afraid that he should be called upon to do something.
Clara Barton
To Strauss the composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it back on again.
Arturo Toscanini
If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.
Benoit Mandelbrot
