Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
Given the profits he and Pharaoh must have made, one might call Joseph the first international arbitrageur.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.
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Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'
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With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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I don't think you should limit what you read.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
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Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
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There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'
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I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith.
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In papergaming, players can look at a character sheet of their own creation and see all of their skills, right there, in black and white.
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Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault.
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For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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Let's keep this simple: We separate religion and government in this country. That means the state has no business setting aside special days for prayer or other religious observances. Thomas Jefferson knew that. He refused to issue prayer proclamations during his presidency. James Madison issued a few under pressure from Congress but later in his life wrote an essay saying he wished he hadn't. Andrew Jackson followed Jefferson's lead and refused to issue such proclamations entirely.
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When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
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Like a lot of London, Richmond town centre had been laid out back when town planning was something that happened to other people.
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Given the profits he and Pharaoh must have made, one might call Joseph the first international arbitrageur.
