A.D. Aliwat Quotes

The president is the most powerful man in the world, and it would be great to be him because of that, but really, I could only see myself doing it under my own terms. I think I'd make a better dictator.

An important part of being an alpha is to be hateful and calculating, but to appear just inconsiderate. You need to put in effort to get what you want, but people will push back if they think you're doing something maliciously. If they believe you just don't know any better, are just kind of a selfish dick and they got in the way of that, rather than thinking they were a target, then you can get away with a lot more, and from then on they either avoid you or accept you as a force of nature.

If I seem better than you, you like me more. If you feel you have no chance with me, you like me more.

Everybody that breaks up has a little tally of their victories which they count after the relationship to see how they did; cheating gives you a million tallies and more or less makes the entire relationship a lie.

Rock stars have many of the same qualities as athletes - millions for doing what they love, fans, easy pussy, fame, status, the ability to do whatever they want when they want. While what they do is still cool, the main difference is that it's less masculine. You connect with your fans in this intense, intimate, emotional way that is less about you and more about them, how you make them feel. When you're an athlete, it's all about you. They cheer you on. When you make music, you cheer them on, provide the soundtrack to their little lives, and all they do is cheer you back to say "Thanks.

Being an investment banker is pretty much the perfect job for an all around triple-threat genius, and because I'm doing so well with it, I know I'm actually smarter than certifiable geniuses like Stephen Hawking and Einstein.

Polarization breeds respect.

It wasn't really acceptable to be single for more than a week, two tops, if you were cool in junior high.

I never rode school busses growing up, unless, of course, it was for sports shit. Only losers ride school busses.

I was nine when I figured out it's better to be respected than liked.

There really is nothing like firsthand knowledge if it's mine.

While yes, it's good to have a fair amount of haters, it's not good to have them on the street, where their anonymity can let them slip away without serious repercussions if they slight you, and this made me realize that fame, on its own, without fear, actually totally fucking sucks.

I like cheating. It makes me feel good about myself. It's a very easy way to win, since all relationships, especially more "serious" ones, are, in a way, wars.

A junior high sports bus was, in the same vein as some fancier modes of passenger transport - limousines, private jets, coaches, whatever - a place where the important people, the king and queen, sat in the back.

The kinds of jobs a fifteen-and-a-half-year-old can get are not worth doing. They pay shit and suck.

We were the untamed young bucks, testosterone and beer fueling our charge, fear alone left in the wake. Everybody thought we were a little dangerous, and that was cool.

I'm pretty much the definition of an American Hero.

If people stopped having sex, the world would end in about a hundred years. Think about that shit. If money and power didn't exist, people would still be fucking.

I didn't ask any questions. I didn't think. The steroids did that for me.

I could be described, sure, with words like cool guy or, again, cool incarnate, rebel, badass, whatever, but I viewed these as just descriptive words . . . they serviced me; I no longer was defined by any of them, and I no longer sought to become the definition of anything other than myself.

Where wealth and status are concerned, shit isn't supposed to be hard. Ivies are known for "grade inflation" - though there is a lot of work, the reward for a mediocre job at completing it is still usually an A. In any given corporation, the higher the role and pay, the less that person actually does. CEOs who get fired for sucking at their jobs and losing a shit-ton of money are often given multi-million dollar "golden parachutes." It was kinda the same with this frat; we were the best, so we did the least.

If you're tall enough, there's no good reason you should be a nerd. Unless you're a nerd that's kind of a dick, and you start your own company like Bill Gates or the Facebook guy or something, odds are you have a shitty job where you do most of the work and don't make anything, while a tall former prep is an executive or in sales, which are both easy and primarily just involve taking credit for a nerd's work, and also make a shitload more money.

You can be whoever you want to be. Sometimes all it takes is a little inspiration and effort.

Being comfortable in your own skin is the spirit of rock-and-roll and, really, the spirit of cool.

There's a reason why the Super Bowl is watched way more than the NBA Finals and World Series.

Being a rocket scientist isn't all that smart when you could work in finance.

It's not "Why have hamburger when you can have steak?" It's "I'll have the filet mignon, rib eye, t-bone, and fuck it, throw a couple of burgers in there too, I guess." Alphas need variety.

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

I love movies and all, but I could never imagine standing around saying lines and playing make believe all day. It's too fucking ridiculous. Also, even children and animals can technically be actors. It's not a job for a man.

The more you fuck over, the bigger the bonus. Winners win, losers lose.

Fame had kept me from getting laid that night. Fame would make it so other people would bother me, follow me around with cameras, be all up in my shit, keep me from doing what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it. Fame could even potentially kill me. It killed a lot of people: John Lennon, Princess Diana, Selena.

We weren't old and lame and interested in companionship; that's only functional at a certain age for child rearing or to make sure you don't die alone. Dating was fucking.

Since humans are social animals, you're basically only as good as your reputation.

Not caring is absolute freedom, and if you own it, all the way, it emits supreme confidence.

Bullying is beneath alphas. Bullies are just pussies that are big enough to get away with exorcising their emotional problems.

Alphas, like Scarface, can be drug dealers, but it's still a little grimy.

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

I hate pretty much everyone almost as much as I love myself.