Erol Alkan Quotes
I'm sure that there are many situations in life that are going to offer the same risks and pitfalls that you have to get past. That's just life.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
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I actually have more shoes than anyone will ever know.
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.
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You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
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But if we ask where precisely in the brain that point of view is located, the simple assumptions that work so well on larger scales of space and time break down. It is now quite clear that there is no single point in the brain where all information funnels in, and this fact has some far from obvious consequences.
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I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz.
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But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.
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Always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
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A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.
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Ch'un almo gaudio, un così gran contentoNon potrebbe comprare oro né argento.
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Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song.
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Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
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It's not where you start but where you finish.
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Rosie Perez is the coolest. She's kind of everything you want her to be. She's involved in so many cool things, political charities and stuff.
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But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as much out of the pension fund as the Kennedys made out of selling whiskey.
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Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
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I'm sure that there are many situations in life that are going to offer the same risks and pitfalls that you have to get past. That's just life.
