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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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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I see so many ways America uses to rob Negroes and it is sinful and America can't keep holding on, and doing these things.
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The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.
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As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
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I wasn't so sure about signing up for 'Law & Order.' I liked the show, but another TV series? I'll tell you, though, it's been great, and I had no idea how popular the show was.
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Two sides to a story exist when evidence exists on both sides of a position. Then, reasonable people may disagree about how to weigh that evidence and what conclusion to form from it. Everyone, of course, is entitled to their own opinion.
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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.
