Allan Sloan Quotes
The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I bought a girl roses once.
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High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton.
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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Life is not perfect.
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I dont think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you dont discourage something that may be rather nice.
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'How to Train Your Dragon,' the first one, was a film I'd seen prior to being approached for the sequel. I don't often watch family animated movies, but it's one that I loved and thought was really well done: beautifully crafted storytelling.
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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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My definition of media? 'Anything which owns attention.' This could be a game or, perhaps, a platform. Ironically, the media tends to associate media with publishing - digital or otherwise - which, in turn, is too narrow a way to consider not only the media but also the reality of the competitive landscape and media-focused innovation.
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The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.
