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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When I was at AOL, I was always on the web media side while much of the company was focused on the ISP business. We focused on big categories like celebrities and sports, and we created brands around that category like AOL Celebrities, AOL Movies and Fanhouse.
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The term 'celebrity' makes my skin crawl.
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I feel like shoes are one of those things that no matter how conservative or how outrageous you get, a good pair of shoes is going to last you a lifetime.
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It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.
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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.
