Erol Alkan Quotes
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.
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I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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Siberia is a state of mind.
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And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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Puerto Rico is a powerful island.
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It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.
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The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.
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I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.
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We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.
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That's some fucking doorman you've got out there.
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We all need joy, and we can all receive joy in only one way, by adding to the joy of others.
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I do not want to pour out my heart to the world. I am cautious of what I say and to whom.
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In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.
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It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.
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So, through playing with Cop I realized that there is a potentially interested audience out in the world.
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As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
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Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
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You can't live life being afraid, because fear censors ambition.
