Dorothy Dunnett Quotes
But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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I had no idea about nutrition. I thought by eating salads you'll stay skinny.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.
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I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.
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Zen wants us to acquire an entirely new point of view whereby to look into the mysteries of life and the secrets of nature. This is because Zen has come to the definite conclusion that the ordinary logical process of reasoning is powerless to give final satisfaction to our deepest spiritual needs.
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My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.
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in the will of God" is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart... It's motto is --" My Father can do what he likes with me, He may bless me to death, or give me a bitter cup; I delight to do His will.
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But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.
