Patrick Cox Quotes
Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that.
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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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My preference is not to fight a Mexican.
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There are 195 crime books published in Sweden every year. You could cut that to 100 and keep the good ones.
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It has not been hard to grow older, because I believe if you have something you believe in, that will keep you alive far more than plastic surgery or Botox.
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First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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When I retired from professional chess in 2005 to join the Russian pro-democracy movement against Putin, I was frequently asked how my chess experience might help me in politics. My answer was that it wouldn’t help much at all, because in chess we had fixed rules and uncertain results, while in Russian politics it was exactly the opposite.
Garry Kasparov -
Two eyes our souls possess: While one is turned on time, The other seeth things Eternal and sublime
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There are unfortunately not a few good professional physicists who still think about the world as if space and time had an absolute meaning.
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I just loved performing. It just made me feel alive. It's scary, but that's part of it. I think it's important to have that extra adrenaline. It gives you that extra zing.
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Vigorous writing is concise.
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In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
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When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.
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Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.
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Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.
