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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Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?
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The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.
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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.
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It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said that I would die before I went to rehab. But I thought, 'I'm going to stay here tonight.' And I stayed there for a month. It was great.
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In the beginning of the Great War, the emotions of Europe ran riot in a most horrible manner, first among the so-called 'living,' and then among the killed when they awoke.
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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.
