Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
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When the opportunity came along to do 'Win, Lose or Draw,' I took it selfishly to find out if I did enjoy being me on camera. And I did that for the last two years I was doing 'Mama's Family.'
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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I still have a young attitude.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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E is for the EDUCATORS, the women who taught us well.
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Of our desires some are natural and necessary, others are natural but not necessary; and others are neither natural nor necessary, but are due to groundless opinion. (29)
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Therefore the love which us doth bind, But Fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars.
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There's always going to be life experiences that find their way into my songs.
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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
