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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Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.
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I missed the Olympic team in 1996 - missed making the team. I tried to make a comeback in my sport, and soon after the Olympic trials, Johann Olav Koss, who is a Norwegian speed-skater, called me up and asked me to be a part of Olympic Aid. Now Olympic Aid is Right to Play. It's a wonderful, narrow focus.
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Mathematics is not a spectator sport!
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Even if life sometimes knocks you down, you’re going to get right back up again.
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The sun sliced through the windshield, sealing me in light. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth on my eyelids. Sunlight traveled a long distance to reach this planet; an infinitesimal portion of that sunlight was enough to warm my eyelids. I was moved. That something as insignificant as an eyelid had its place in the workings on the universe, that the cosmic order did not overlook this momentary fact.
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I'm opposed to any sport that reduces the coefficient of friction between me and the ground.
