Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes

Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.

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• The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

  

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• I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.

  

  Jack Kemp
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• It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

  

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• I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

  

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• Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
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• I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

  

  Randy Newman
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• I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

  

  Ram Shriram
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• I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Think
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• In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Country
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• I love sailing but hate cruise ships.

  

  Garrett Neff
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• Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.

  

  Karl Malone
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• The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.

  

  Lamar Alexander
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• Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Die
  • Sense

• I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.

  

  Garrett Clayton
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• Because of my job, I get a lot of opportunity to grab a few days here and there in many cool cities for press commitments, magazine shoots and premieres - Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, New York, Berlin. I always try to get to a gallery or museum if there's time.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• I don't ever want to feel complacent.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
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• I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Work
  • Comedy
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• In the country of pain we are each alone.

  

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• Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

  

  John Cheever
  • World
  • Literature
  • Inspired

• Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

  

  Edwin Land
  • Science

• I don't see why he's any less of a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize than Barack Obama.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • Why
  • Peace

• To be able to be onstage and to hear people in the audience go, 'That's my song!' It's amazing.

  

  Deborah Joy Winans
  • People
  • Song
  • Amazing

• Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Science