Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
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I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats.
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Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.
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Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.
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Beyonce is cool, and she can really sing.
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I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.
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If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?
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I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.
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I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.
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Gwen Stefani has amazing style. I used to really love Courtney Love, and anything she wore I loved. Or Chloe Sevigny, because I really love that sort of classic look, and I like being girly and flowery, and wearing little D&G dresses. I wear hats a lot, too. I think it goes back to when I was a bit grungy and was a skater girl for a bit.
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Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?
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By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.
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It is important to be still and listen and follow the Spirit.
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Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.
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What is important, and I think celebrities should do, is show your children when they are young is that wealth is not important. I took my children when they where young to Brazil, to the shanty towns with children begging. Ever since that day, I have had no problems with my children, if I buy them anything they are grateful.
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Love should be that person that inspires you to be a better person.
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Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. If you change your thinking, you change your life.
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Yes, you can have it all, but not all at the same time. Set your own priorities, trust your gut and follow your heart.
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I'm sure our brains are working unconsciously. When you have a creative thought, it's parts of the brain talking to each other without your awareness.
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The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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The laboratory work was the province of Dr Searle, an explosive, bearded Nemesis who struck terror into my heart. If one made a blunder one was sent to ‘stand in the corner’ like a naughty child. He had no patience with the women students. He said they disturbed the magnetic equipment, and more than once I heard him shout ‘Go and take off your corsets!’ for most girls wore these garments then, and steel was beginning to replace whalebone as a stiffening agent. For all his eccentricities, he gave us excellent training in all types of precise measurement and in the correct handling of data.
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I gave someone a perverse argument not so long ago about why advertising is better than movies. You want to hear it? Movies operate from a really disingenuous premise, that people are heroes. I know a lot of people and have had an opportunity over the years to observe them. Are they heroes...? Let's put it this way. Advertising tries something simpler and more believable: Products as heroes. I guess the idea is: When all else fails, put your faith in conditioner.
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I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
