Bobby Fischer Quotes
I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
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War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
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For Cantonese - because there's no standardized pinyin system - I have to have someone read it to me, and then I rewrite the whole script in my own Cantonese pinyin.
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I would if I could. Coal mining was the best job I ever had.
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I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.
