Alan Kotok Quotes
I'm opposed to any sport that reduces the coefficient of friction between me and the ground.
Quotes to Explore
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It's as if to be interesting, you had to be depressed and messy, but that's complete nonsense.
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Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.
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There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but that which directly leads to action. It is for the latter to see beyond. They are the free artists who create the future and its history, the conscious architects of the world.
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Without this great land of ours, we would all drown.
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Success is a process... During that journey sometimes there are stones thrown at you, and you convert them into milestones.
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I think people are universal.
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I am so beastly tired of mankind and the world that nothing can interest me unless it contains a couple of murders on each page or deals with the horrors unnameable and unaccountable that leer down from the external universes.
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Contemporary politics is all about phony energy, about running around slamming doors for the sake of it-or, more to the point, opening them and tossing through a huge sack of taxpayer dollars.
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Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.
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I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
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He'll probably wake up having sleepless nights about that one.
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I find solace in immersing myself in my work.
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Never underestimate the hidden power of one very determined person. There is nothing more powerful than determination and persistence.
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I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport.
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Is climbing, as a passion and as a sport, better off now than it was in the past? We can do harder climbs now in faster times - techniques are more refined and equipement more sophisticated - but are we really any better off?
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I'm opposed to any sport that reduces the coefficient of friction between me and the ground.
