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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Faint heart never won fair lady!
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I think it's really, really important to grow the consensus and to realize that there is always some value that can be shared with another American, on any issue. Starting from those points of common belief and shared values is very, I think, important to forging the consensus that allows these issues to more forward.
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If people don't like it my music now, they will.
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Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones that do.
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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.
