Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes

Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics

Benoit Mandelbrot

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• It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Find
  • Everyday

• In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Boy
  • Living

• I fight because I like challenges.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Like
  • Fight
  • Challenges

• All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

  

  Ferguson Jenkins
  • Way
  • Support
  • Personal

• Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Think
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.

  

  Gary Frank
  • War
  • Beauty
  • Optimism

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Art

• I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.

  

  Inara George
  • Different
  • Mother
  • Father

• Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.

  

  Patricia McCormick
  • Up
  • Book
  • Ideas

• For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Taken

• The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Good
  • Leadership
  • Luck

• A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • You
  • Friend
  • Same

• I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both be within our trading relationships within Europe but we can also be a fantastic global trader.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Hate
  • Argument
  • Europe

• I'm one of those people who happen to like trees. I don't know why - I just do. As a kid, I loved to climb them. The distant, upper branches, especially, were celestial and alluring.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • People
  • Why
  • Trees

• I saw a sign one time that said 'hemorrhoids awareness week' at the doctor's office. Let me tell you, if you got hemorrhoids, I'm sure you are aware of it. You don't need a sign to tell anybody about it.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Time
  • Week
  • Doctor

• Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Up
  • Know
  • Nothing

• Unfortunately, it seems to me that when it comes to issues affecting the trans community, most people who are cisgender - a word describing those people whose gender identity is in alignment with the sex they were assigned at birth - focus too much on the administrative, legal, and medical aspects of trans identity.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • People
  • Community
  • Focus

• A tongue like yours should be burned and branded So I can see you lie to me I wish the air would color red when you breathed it Oh, so I could've seen it coming Look in my eyes when you say you love me So I can see you lie to me

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Wish
  • Eyes
  • Air

• All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• I don't want to follow comedians because I don't want to see what they're thinking about, 'cause then maybe I won't stumble across a thought maybe I had about the same subject.

  

  Nick Thune
  • Thinking
  • Subject
  • Comedians

• Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Thinking
  • Color
  • Physics