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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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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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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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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Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
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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 have friends who are science journalists, and I'm seeing stories of theirs or talking with them about ideas that they're pitching. Certain kinds of science are around me all the time, like climate change and biology.
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In the meantime, to all suits, to all entreaties, to all letters, to all tricks, I will be deaf as an adder, blind as a beetle, lay mine ear to the ground, and lock mine eyes i' my hand against all temptations.
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For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide.
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As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
