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'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.
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I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.
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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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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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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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For me, good service is efficient and discreet; it's that critical balance. As soon as the client sits down, the communication flow has to start. Customers need to feel that the waiters are supervised - that there's a system in place.
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Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
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The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings.
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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.
