Alton Brown Quotes
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
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Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
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Yes, I am very prolific.
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I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.
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And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well.
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I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.
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I grew up around writers, and there was always a romance to them. They were charming. They would tell their stories of what they were working on, over the table.
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Once you win, you have no doubt that you can win. So you have gone through it once, and you can do it again.
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You humans act so strange. Everything you create is used to destroy.
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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much.
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When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
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Laughing brains are more absorbent.
