Boris Spassky Quotes
The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.
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What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons.
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It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
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I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.
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It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards.
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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.
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The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.
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I tend to enjoy roles that I very closely identify with: fringe people and complicated characters, who might even be bad guys, or bad characters that have one redeeming quality.
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When I heard that 'Dracula' was being made into a series by NBC and Carnival, I couldn't resist. I knew they would do something interesting with it. A period drama with a supernatural twist seemed like a whole lot of fun.
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As many Giants fans know, we're one of the few teams without cheerleaders.
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I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.
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The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.
