Top 200 A.D. Aliwat Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Take the moment, it’s yours.”

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152. “The one thing that will help in almost any New York City situation is to simply appear crazier than anyone else around.”

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153. “Growing up, us Eighties Babies were all told we were the best, that we could be anything we wanted to be; it was normal to spoil kids and fill them with lofty expectations. The only difference between me and everybody else was that I really was the best and really could be anything I wanted to be.”

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154. “Even boring classes are ones you must get A’s in. The stakes are too high, the payoff too important.”

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155. “You can’t maintain top-dog status with any unrequited feelings out there.”

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156. “Faith is a puzzle meant to take someone’s entire life to complete.”

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157. “Dogs know what’s in the air.”

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158. “This isn’t real. It would be too much.”

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159. “Waiters can be so rude.”

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160. “Baths don’t really get you any cleaner. You just swim in filth.”

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161. “It’s just fun to make men fall in love with you.”

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162. “There’s a reason why the Super Bowl is watched way more than the NBA Finals and World Series.”

— A.D. Aliwat

163. “A challenge, a surprise: the kind of girl you can’t forget. They write songs about this type of girl; make her into a character in the movies.”

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164. “Change form, execute function.”

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165. “Few kings are actually deserving of their crowns, but that doesn’t mean they’re incapable of greatness.”

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166. “Truth – something between fact and faith – leads to God. ‘Love isn’t about rules. It’s a feeling. You know when it’s there and when it’s not, and it can be brought on by different things for different people. That, that’s truth. One’s truth leads to God. Some people see it in kindness, others in tough love, like you’re showing me. Someone’s truth is in what they love.’”

— A.D. Aliwat

167. “Writing well with children in the house is damn near impossible.”

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168. “There’s a certain quiet dignity to it, the chivalrous gesture by the dumpee.”

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169. “There really is nothing like firsthand knowledge if it’s mine.”

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170. “I know my kids will be incredible, just not as great as me.”

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171. “Every man loves it when a woman tells him ‘no.’ This is because hearing ‘no’ releases stress hormones and men enjoy being stressed out. It makes them feel more important when they’re stressed, like they matter more. Deep down all men know they are terrible and disgusting and for the most part worthless. They hate themselves, and so they like to be told ’no.”

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172. “Connection is in the mind.”

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173. “The internet is nothing but a jumble of nonsense, an atrocious mixed metaphor. It’s not meant to be understood. First and foremost, it’s a web that you surf. What the hell does that even mean? It not only defies sense but the very laws of physics! And now, apparently, it also contains a cloud. And this is something that’s supposed to be secure? That which looks solid but in fact is not, something literally as thin as air? Perfect!”

— A.D. Aliwat

174. “Just gotta do you. Always. If you can’t handle the power, you can’t handle the power.”

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175. “Fraternities aren’t cool at all, not in the real, rock-and-roll sense, the one I now knew. They have a reputation of housing douchebags that pay for friends and try to seem better than everyone else, and actually smart, cool people shouldn’t want to be a part of anything like that.”

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176. “B students don’t deserve mixers.”

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177. “The proof is always on paper.”

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178. “Love and be loved in return, but don’t make your love conditional on being loved back.”

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179. “Someone’s truth is in what they love.”

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180. “You can make something less offensive by taking it over.”

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181. “This country air, it really is for them, the birds.”

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182. “When done right, a sandwich can absolutely lead to transcendence.”

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183. “Shaving is always cathartic, much like showering, changing out of clothes, anything where what once was carried during a moment or period of distress is purged.”

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184. “A tear. But only one.”

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185. “The relationship between madness and genius has been commented on since Aristotle.”

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186. “While it’s true the city’s gotten a lot safer, you still gotta watch out for the wackadoos. You always will.”

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187. “Investment banking is my true calling, so I’m comfortable making sacrifices. I’ve basically given my life to it these past few years. It’s sort of like joining the Army, except instead of going off and losing a leg in some faraway desert to make some defense contractor or oil guy rich, I get to sell things like collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps to idiots and make myself rich.”

— A.D. Aliwat

188. “The truth you know has all been a lie.”

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189. “Girls know the value of a good secret.”

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190. “It wouldn’t be so bad, to actually be living; it would be pretty nice.”

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191. “She seemed to speak to herself more than him. But this is the strength of any good mystic.”

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192. “In Buddhism, we don’t believe in the soul. Only karma, deeds. The soul is more of a Western thing. The individual.”

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193. “Evil travels – like all energy, it transfers between people and objects; it moves, gets stored, moves again. But where did it originate? When Eve ate the apple? Or before that, with Satan, that fallen seraph who took the form of a snake and whispered with slithering tongue into her ear? Did she birth it or was it thrust upon us by some insufflating malefic serpent? Is it man-made or a supernatural force?”

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194. “Some models are actually very weird-looking.”

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195. “Letters form words, lines lengthen, paragraphs grow.”

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196. “Feet in general are weird.”

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197. “Clarity trumps context.”

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198. “From below, clouds lie. And if you understand them, if you understand the lies, then you can harness their power.”

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199. “Doing reality TV would have made me more famous than rich, and that would have been awful.”

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200. “What the hell has he been wasting his time doing? Indulging his insanity, that’s what.”

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