Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
It was astonishing when at one point, I got the idea of how to make artifical clouds with a collaborator, we had pictures made which were theoretically completely artificial pictures based upon that one very simple idea. And this picture everybody views as being clouds.
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A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.
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I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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I have not seen 'Vaalu' yet, but I am sure it will be good.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.
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Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I love New York. Love it.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
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No one can look bad when you've been lit for six hours.
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I'm first generation in the country - my family's Mexican.
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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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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
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You can't explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don't have to. It's that simple.
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Simple, I don't like the word simple. I like easy better. I want to forget about the technique. I sweat and worry but I don't want it look like that; but you can’t separate the artist and his technique.
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Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.
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It was astonishing when at one point, I got the idea of how to make artifical clouds with a collaborator, we had pictures made which were theoretically completely artificial pictures based upon that one very simple idea. And this picture everybody views as being clouds.
