Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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Being evil is easy.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.
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I'm very interested in the idea of a large group of people who come together quite suddenly, but not illogically, for reasons that could not have been anticipated.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.
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The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
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You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula.
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Sequoia is a firm that a lot of people across tech and the Valley look to, and I think they're setting an important example in adding new diversity to their team.
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I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.
