Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don't think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.
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While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
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MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
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Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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There are people today who look to fear to take us out of fear. But I believe that there are many, many more people who would look to love.
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Margaret Thatcher was pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true.
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The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.
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But how shall I excuse it? There are things done which are as holy as the heavens, - which are clear before God as the light of the sun, which leave no stain on the conscience, and which yet the malignity of man can invest with the very blackness of hell!
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As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.
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I don't seek power and do not run around
