Alan Gray:
CLASS OF 1971
Dumont High SchoolClass of 1971
Dumont, NJ
Alan's Story
Alan is from Dumont, New Jersey. He is single. His schools include Dumont High School. He later attended New England College (International Relations/Political Science, Economics), Schiller College, London (Philosophy, Economics, Political Science), Monterey Institute of International Studies (Beach Bum, Surfer Dude, Russian Area Studies), University of Maryland, College Park (Government, Economics, Political Science), Bergen CC (Boredom, Thumb Twiddling, Liberal Arts). He works(ed) at Total Image Worx LLC, Colegio Brader, Carmella's Cappuccino & Espresso Co., Inc..
Alan's interests include Neuroscience, Politics, Serendipity, New York Yankees, Manchester United, New York Knicks, Maria Sharapova, John Elway, Rugged Maniac. Music he likes includes Katy Tiz, Crosby, Stills. Books he likes include Raiding Forces Series by Phil Ward, Heroes, Mentors and Friends. Movies he likes include Zero Dark Thirty, Viciadas em Resident Evil, Full Metal Jacket. TV shows he likes include Nashville, beIN SPORT USA, BBC America.
One of Alan's favorite quotes is:""To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"It's through hope and patience that men and women submit themselves to love, labor, law, and war."
"The dream of heaven grows as the lust for life declines."
"The quest for eternal salvation in heaven is too often interrupted by the struggle for daily survival."
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix
"Love creates responsibility in direct proportion to its very intensity."
"Love destroys judgment, whereas suspicion destroys love."
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." - Ambrose Bierce
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the places and moments that take our breath away."
"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right." - Henry Ford
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down." - Jimmy Durante
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"Hard work never killed anyone...Expand for more
, but why take the risk?" - President Ronald Reagan
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Alva Edison
"I'll moider da bum." - Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true." - James Branch Cabell
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." -- Frank Zappa
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
- Antoine de Saint Exupery
"Folks fearful of facing truths like the sun are most often condemned to face terror alone in the shadows."
"Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn." Arnold Schwarzenegger
"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill
"Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton, UK Parliament's House of Lords (1886)
"Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it." - George Bernard Shaw
"Life is what happens to you when you're making plans to do other things." - John Lennon
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"The check is in the mail..." - Anonymous
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Dancing is silent poetry." - Simonides (556-468 BC)
"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." - H. G. Wells
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight that matters, it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Anonymous".
More about Alan:"Carpe diem ... becasuse today is all we have to work with.".
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