Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people. In this spirit, the stock market is one of the most attractive things imaginable. Stock-market data is abundant so I can check everything. Financial markets are very influential and I want to be part of this field now that it is maturing.
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
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Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
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There's going to be a picture of 'Mama' on my obit.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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I try to write catchy hooks but, at the same time, things that mean something that will provoke thought.
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There's a fine line between artist and product. I don't think the industry purposely does it, but I think that's just the way they maneuver. You have to be careful that doesn't become your story, where you become a product, and your art is tarnished because you're just seen as a tool to make money.
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
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My favourite smell on a man is Lynx and Marc Jacobs.
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I'm a lion. I'm not tough, but I am strong. I'm definitely not a wallflower.
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The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people. In this spirit, the stock market is one of the most attractive things imaginable. Stock-market data is abundant so I can check everything. Financial markets are very influential and I want to be part of this field now that it is maturing.
