Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
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I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.
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I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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I work predominantly with tailors from Nigeria, Ghana, and Senegal.
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Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.
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Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.
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When I was growing up, many of my relatives had never seen a black person before. Today, hundreds, maybe thousands of Africans live in Istanbul's old city alone. It's hard to imagine their lives in their human totality.
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Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
