Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes

Given the profits he and Pharaoh must have made, one might call Joseph the first international arbitrageur.

Benoit Mandelbrot

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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.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Time
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• I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Life
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• Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?

  

  Pat Buchanan
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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.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
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• I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Love
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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.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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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.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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• Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Good
  • Pretty
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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.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • God
  • Change

• I don't think you should limit what you read.

  

  Nate Silver
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• In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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  • Apple

• Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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• Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Attention
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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.

  

  Laura Benanti
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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.'

  

  Abraham Verghese
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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.

  

  Ja Rule
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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.

  

  Warren Spector
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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.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
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  • Always
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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.

  

  Adam Mansbach
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• With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

  

  Dee Hock
  • Time
  • May
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• You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Thinking
  • Hope
  • Giving

• You’re really doing well, it’s the satisfaction you get from school, it’s love,” Lila said to me, and I felt that she was a little sad.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • School
  • Love
  • Satisfaction

• Making good television is what Simon Cowell does. That's his business.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Good
  • Business

• Given the profits he and Pharaoh must have made, one might call Joseph the first international arbitrageur.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot