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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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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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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I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.
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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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When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.
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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've met Michael Keaton, John Favreau, Marisa Tomei - they're all really amazing people and really, really professional. I've learned so much from just watching them operate on set.
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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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I've met lots of interesting people, but Lucian Freud is the one who sticks out because I spent so much time with him. He taught me discipline, which I hadn't been taught properly before. If I was, like, two seconds, late, he would kick off. Once, I was three minutes late, and he went absolutely berserk.
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I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true.
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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.
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As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.
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The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.
