Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people.

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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
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We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy.
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Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, green haemins are obtained. Their colour is due to a strong band in the red which is already recognized in chlorophyll.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They're so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
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Life is a dream from which we wake only when we meet death.
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You go on Facebook, you buy social advertising. And you can very cost-effectively target people who are in the market for your product from all over the world.
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Going to college was something that I didn't want to do.
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This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.
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I always had an eye toward the stage for the story of Hamilton's life, but I began with the idea of a concept album, the way Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Evita' and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' were albums before they were musicals.
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The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people.