Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.
Nastassja Kinski
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My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.
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Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
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The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.
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I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and then I can do something else. I can't multitask.
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You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.
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By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It's the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.
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Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.
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I have done, I hope to say I've done things to help make a difference while I'm on this earth. Are animal issues most important to me? Absolutely. I have an affinity with them, but I also care about children and the elderly and always say that the rest of everybody else can fend for themselves because we're in a age where we can. And we're all able to do so.
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Constantly and, if it be possible, on the occasion of every impression on the soul, apply to it the principles of Physic, of Ethic, and of Dialectic.
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Life is not something that "has" meaning. It's something we give meaning to. You don't "end up" with a meaningful life, you create it.
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Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
