#fact

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#been #fact #fate #fully #i

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#factory #important #ivory #rare #shapes

The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country. ↗

— Ed Markey

#assault #bringing #congress #country #factories

No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious. ↗

— Merrill Markoe

#argue #being #country #fact #hip

We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice. ↗

— Marc Maron

#choice #freedom #indonesia #manufacture #need

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#believe #commitment #contrast #difference #entire

My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#dad #did #drives #fact #guy

The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#easily #factor #following #know #makes

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought. ↗

— Theresa May

#because #campaigned #decisions #difficult #difficult decisions

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer. ↗

— John Mayer

#good #good music #i #manufacturer #music