Alan Cox Quotes
Engineering does not require science. Science helps a lot but people built perfectly good brick walls long before they knew why cement works.
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my friend, you're my wife, you're my girlfriend, you're my co-worker. This is your box, and you're not allowed to stray outside of it.
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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If elected, I would not be the mere president of a party - I would endeavor to act independent of party domination and should feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.
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Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.
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Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
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It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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We must reject the easy impulses of bitterness and rancor and embrace the difficult work, but the important work, the vital work of finding a path forward together.
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Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
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I think if you're impregnated with good literature, with good culture, you're much more difficult to manipulate, and you're much more aware of the dangers that powers represent.
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Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.
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We look at the number of engineers coming out of India; we look at the growth of the economy, and it's clear that India is a place we want to be.
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Engineering does not require science. Science helps a lot but people built perfectly good brick walls long before they knew why cement works.
