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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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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We never really know what might be beside us or ahead, but most days we walk as if we do.
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Some days I might be wearing a little dress, and some days I might be wearing something with wings on it and be confusing.
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I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.
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All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.
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You can't live life being afraid, because fear censors ambition.
