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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Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice.
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When Dick Avedon died, I was so upset that I just started painting.
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No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.
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I like to believe that science is becoming mainstream. It should have never been something that sort of geeky people do and no one else thinks about. Whether or not, it will always be what geeky people do. It should, as a minimum, be what everybody thinks about because science is all around us.
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To be honest, you go to a bat mitzvah in Los Angeles, and you can count on at least a few industry people to be there.
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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.
