Erol Alkan Quotes
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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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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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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Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.
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Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.
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While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
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The people who lived behind those clean lace curtains in row after row of identical boxes were newspaper readers, and every word in at any rate my newspaper must be clear and comprehensible to them, must be interesting to them, must encourage them to break away from littleness, stimulate their ambition, help them to want to build a better land.
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You're always afraid of losing what you have. Regardless of success or anything, you're always afraid.
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You can't live life being afraid, because fear censors ambition.
