Alpha Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Alpha Quotes from famous persons: Desmond Dekker, Alastair Campbell, Sage Northcutt, Barry Ritholtz, Irene Joliot-Curie. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Alpha Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then

I was born in St. Andrew‘s and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy‘s school.
Desmond Dekker
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My public caricature – that of a self-confident alpha male – is only partly accurate.
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Every day at Team Alpha Male, I’m improving. The biggest thing with that camp is everyone is so positive and has the work ethic to go out there and push the pace and keep going and going and going.
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Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. They end up selling a variety of things beyond mere outperformance.
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We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
Irene Joliot-Curie
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My 70 days of torture began in Camp India. The camps in Gitmo are named by letters. A is for Alpha, B for Beta, C for Charlie and so on. I is for India. It is a torture block.
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The universe has told us the most common types of planets are small planets, and our study shows these are exactly the ones that are most likely to be orbiting Alpha Centauri A and B.
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I’m not a natural leader. If you see me in a room, I’m the guy standing in a corner hiding. I’m not an alpha male.
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There’s something we calculate called an alpha, and that’s the stock‘s return that’s independent, uncorrelated to the market. And the only way you really get a high alpha is for something to zig when the market zags.
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I see an insidious problem in the marketing of weddings as ‘the happiest day of your life.’ The pressure that is placed upon this event to be the alpha and omega of your entire existence makes it, I think, into a kind of nuptial New Year‘s Eve, and we all know how that usually turns out.
Jessi Klein
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I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.
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Alpha men are very turned on by the alpha woman, really high chemistry, really fun to work with, probably really fun to have affairs with, but there’s not sustainable harmony in that lack of complement. There can only be one person in the driver‘s seat.
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In films, I didn’t crave the type of attention I had sort of stumbled into in my music career. And I do not audition well. I’m really not good at it. Early on, I did movies like ‘Alpha Dog’ and ‘Black Snake Moanbecause the directors didn’t ask me to audition.
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It’s never occurred to me – and I don’t know what right mixture of upbringing this was – that my opinion wasn’t as important as the alpha males or that I shouldn’t try or that I wasn’t the funniest one in the room.
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An investor doesn’t have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.
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I wouldn’t necessarily say that ‘Alpha House‘ or ‘Betas’ embodied a particular vision of Amazon of the kind of brand or programming they were gonna do. I think those were the first lucky creators who hit it right for them.
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My mom raised a self-aware kid. I wasn’t like the typical alpha male. I wasn’t afraid to sing, you know? I wasn’t afraid to be in musicals.
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Everybody’s under God‘s planet, and God is the Almighty, the Beginning, the End, the Alpha, the Omega. He’s Big Daddy. He gives out these little soldiers and sons and angels and saints to help everybody else get through to him. I’m not the ‘Jesus-only or you’re going to Hell‘ kind of guy.
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I often wonder if my relationships don’t work out because I am the more Alpha one and the focus is on me and men don’t like that.
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Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.
Brandon Sanderson
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A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.
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Further ahead, I’d like to see tiny spacebots – smaller than your cell phonetravel outside our solar system to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri. By keeping the mass of those spacebots low, we could more easily accelerate them.
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My mom was very much alpha. I admired her because she was the working mom on the go. She’s such a boss. She’s an OG, as they say.
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I’m Australian! How much more alpha can you get?
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When my dad walks into a room, he takes over the room, not because he’s trying to, but because there’s a respect of a lifelong career, and there’s an energy coming from him. He is the alpha male in the room.
Charlie McDowell
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And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
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I love alpha males.
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‘Alpha’ is a very fast-moving book. It doesn’t lend itself to laborious introspection and the navel-gazing that some stories can fall prey to.
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For me, I’ve been a part of a super-team in Team Alpha Male for so much of my career.
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‘Ali’ offers stunning re-creations of bouts Ali fought. In the second Liston fight, the auditorium is underlighted and clouded with fetid cigar smoke, which was why the famous picture of a snarling Ali standing over Liston was so dramatic; indoor arenas are now bright enough to be spotted from Alpha Centauri.
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Guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that’s exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall.
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I describe in ‘Chimpanzee Politics‘ how the alpha male needs broad support to reach the top spot. He needs some close allies and he needs many group members to be on his side.
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I’m proud to have served there for 12 months with Alpha Company of the 39th Infantry.
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Each emission of an alpha or beta ray accompanies the transmutation of an atom; the energy communicated to these rays comes from inside the atom.
Irene Joliot-Curie
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I’ve always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet.
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Because Alpha Centauri is so close, it is our first stop outside our solar system. There’s almost certain to be small, rocky planets around Alpha Centauri A and B.
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Generation Alpha has very different expectations for the entire world. Everything that’s going to happen in their lives needs to be visual, on demand, adaptive, in demand, and we have to find a way to embed that into our toy experiences.
Margo Georgiadis
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I think in movies, in television, and in advice columns, often there’s this idea that what people are really attracted to is confidence. And I think people, especially young men, sometimes misinterpret that to mean being brash, or trying to be an alpha.
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I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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I’m an alpha male.
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It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that’s when I realized that this had a huge market.
Shawn Fanning
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For me, it was always survival. Learn where not to be at so you don’t get shot. Learn where not to walk at so you don’t get jumped. Learn who to stand up to, who not to stand up to. And then, when I got old enough to get a chip on my shoulder, I wanted to be the dog. I wanted to be the alpha.
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The goal with ‘Alpha’ was to run towards the cliches and then to break through them, and that doesn’t change depending on the medium.
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We wanna be the first American Alpha. We don’t wanna be the second Team Angle or World’s Greatest Tag Team. We’ve worked so hard to get to where we are, and we feel like we’re unique and different. Yes there are similarities but we’re still different.
Jason Jordan
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Pharrell is a person who has influenced the world. I see myself in him, so I said, ‘You’re an alpha, and I’m an alpha, and I want to be able to express myself in every way, like you do.’
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Women find men attractive who are aggressive… but later on, they get worried that that aggression, that alpha energy, is going to be turned back against them and their children.
Bryan Callen
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There is a major part of who I am that does not feel like the alpha male.
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I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: ‘The Alpha Strategy‘ and the ‘Omega Strategy’; ‘Asia Rising‘ and ‘Asia Falling‘; ‘Free to Choose‘ and ‘Free to Lose’; ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’ and ‘How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.’ Visitors love the collection.
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I’ve never really identified with the way a typical alpha male views women. It’s always an awkward forum for me to hang out with another guy and talk about girls, because I can’t really find a way to fit in.
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The term ‘alpha female’ originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions.
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The guys at Team Alpha Male, they’re my friends. I have a lot of respect for those guys.
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Stand-up comedy is not a man’s job. It’s an alpha job: To be the only person in a room with a microphone who’s allowed to talk.
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In ‘Alpha Protocol,’ right from the outset, the parameters of the game explain to you that the mission needs to get done. How you approach that is your decision. The rewards and penalties for either path, those are going to balance out into different consequences.
Chris Avellone
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Newsrooms are still highly competitive, demanding environments. You have to be robust to hold your own amidst the alpha males and females.
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I’m the alpha parent most of the time, but bedtime is a completely different animal.
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Guys cross train all the time. That’s what Alpha Male’s known for, guys have open doors to come in all the time.
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Now quantitatively we rank things on something called alpha over standard deviation, which is the return independent of the market divided by volatility. Usually, to get a high ranking, you need some buying pressure.
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Almost every culture has a cognitive bias for the tough guy, the alpha, the winner.
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I remember as a young man seeing these bigger-than-life, strong images of black manhood in the form of Jim Brown and Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, Billy Dee Williams. All these guys were these alpha males who were smart, attractive. I said, ‘Wow, I want to be like that.’
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My biggest challenge is to not do urban movies for the rest of my life, those alpha hoodies.