Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
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I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
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Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. 'Use' is a dirty word only when there's an imbalance in the relationship.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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Dan Henderson, even when you're close and he hits you from very, very close, you can feel how heavy his hands are. His hands are pretty powerful.
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Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.
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It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.
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Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.
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I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.
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I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
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I was riding dirt bikes when I was a little kid. I got my first Harley Davidson when I was 17 years old. It was a frame with wheels and a tank on it and all the parts in a box.
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What lovely things Thy hand hath made.
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History teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate's going down.
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Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.
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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
