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.
Queen Latifah -
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.
J. C. Watts -
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
A. R. Ammons -
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.
Eckhart Tolle -
A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
Abbas Kiarostami -
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.
Orison Swett Marden
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
Madeleine Albright -
When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
Aaron Neville -
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.
Sam Palladio -
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.
Victor Garber -
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
E. O. Wilson -
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.
Victor Mitchell -
Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
Gavin Bryars -
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.
Walter Murch -
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.
Mallory Ortberg -
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.
Rachel Cusk -
Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.
Natasha Lyonne
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I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.
John Cleese -
It's totally produced now. It's almost like a conveyor belt of what metal's supposed to be like these days. It's not music to me.
Geezer Butler Black Sabbath -
What I wanna do with Methods is keep that around as sorta my freak out, creative free for all- anything goes project.
Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe -
If you can do something about a situation, why worry? And if you can't do something about a situation, why worry?
Dalai Lama -
Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
Benoit Mandelbrot