Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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Music therapy was so important in the early stages of my recovery because it can help retrain different parts of your brain to form language centers in areas where they weren't before you were injured.
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I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.
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Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
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I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.
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People read stuff over your shoulder when you're in public, and when you write the kind of stuff I do, and people read it over your shoulder, it makes you a little self-conscious.
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True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord.
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Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.
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If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.
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When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.
