Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
I had many books and I had dreams of all kinds. Dreams in which were in a certain sense, how to say, easy to make because the near future was always extremely threatening.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.
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Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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Love means a lot to me, and I love loving, and I love boys.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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Hillary stood with us, as she has stood with so many over the years, and we are proud to stand with her for our country now.
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There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely.
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The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her children doing their homework at the kitchen table.
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A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
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I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring.
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I had many books and I had dreams of all kinds. Dreams in which were in a certain sense, how to say, easy to make because the near future was always extremely threatening.
