Bobby Fischer Quotes
I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
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I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.
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When you focus on the consumer, the consumer responds.
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The fundamental issue is the moral issue.
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It's easier for me to let the game just come to me.
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Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free in space, sailing in the infinite, loses himself in the immense undulations of nature. He climbs, he rises, he soars, he reigns, he hurtles the proud vault of the azure sky . . .
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My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.
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I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
