Alan Kotok Quotes
I'm opposed to any sport that reduces the coefficient of friction between me and the ground.
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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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Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.
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One should never live with regrets or with 'what if.' I've loved the good times, and I have learned from the bad. All in all, it's been a pretty fabulous life for me.
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The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.
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The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.
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Corruption is a disease, and sometimes it's institutionalized. It takes years to remove it. But I want to remove it.
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I'm opposed to any sport that reduces the coefficient of friction between me and the ground.
