Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes

I always felt that science as the preserve of people from Oxbridge or Ivy League universities - and not for the common mortal - was a very bad idea.

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• I've never been one to run from a challenge.

  

  Patrick Swayze
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• I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
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  • Band
  • Same

• I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Cards
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  • Boots

• When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

  

  Karl Marlantes
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• Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
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• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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• Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Uniqueness

• It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Good
  • Leader
  • Too Much

• I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Bad
  • Achieve
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• When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • You
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• I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • Time
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  • Go

• My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
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  • Grandparents

• I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Technology
  • Challenge
  • Serious

• Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Time
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• Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Violence
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• Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.

  

  Wendell Willkie
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• Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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  • American

• I do believe, separate and apart from any particular election or movement, that we are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude sort of nationalism or ethnic identity or tribalism that is built around an us and a them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Identity
  • Movement

• Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Soul
  • English
  • Funk

• I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.

  

  Maria Bartiromo
  • Money
  • Wisdom
  • Risk

• In so many ways, our business is very, very unique. For example, in India, people pay with cash, and we accept cash from day one. And a lot of people in India pay with cash. And that's part of our business model.

  

  Bhavish Aggarwal
  • People
  • Business
  • Model

• When the door closes you have two choices. Give up, or keep going. Let them shut you down or prove them wrong. We all start somewhere. It's where you end up that counts. Grammy 2013

  

  Rihanna
  • Up
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• I always felt that science as the preserve of people from Oxbridge or Ivy League universities - and not for the common mortal - was a very bad idea.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • People
  • Bad
  • Science