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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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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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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Winning doesn't come cheaply … you have to pay a big price.
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When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.
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"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs the probable past. Even far-out fantasy can present a significant test of human values exposed to a new environment. Deriving its most cogent ideas from the tension between permanence and change, science fiction combines the diversions of novelty with its pertinent kind of realism.
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I discovered early in life a stunning truth that's made my life very complicated in its wake, but that I still think is true, and it's that people are very easy to love.
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I don't have the habit of wearing ornaments.
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Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
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Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.
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You can't live life being afraid, because fear censors ambition.
