Jan Timman Quotes
When you're good at something, you should continue to do it. Too many players have stopped at a relatively young age.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.
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If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
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The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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When I see other working actresses that are brown, I get so excited. I get so excited when I see Zoe Kravitz, Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson, Ava Duvernay, and all these beautiful women working.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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If you're not cheating, you're not trying.
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Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
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Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
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I haven't done much press for many reasons, but mostly because it's not an interesting dialogue about work that's been done. It's turned into something else. It's become this ridiculous other thing.
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I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.
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Generations of devoted American history buffs have spent countless hours reading and writing long books about the American Revolution without ever having come across the name of Dr. Thomas Young. Yet it was Young who came up with the idea for the original tea party - the one in Boston Harbor.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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You don't know what's going to happen to you in the next hour. So you just live your life, live to the best of your potential, and just be happy.
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Most of the time, actors respond to the thing that's so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.
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You don't get the good without the bad, but you really do have to see it all in order to make progress.
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When you're good at something, you should continue to do it. Too many players have stopped at a relatively young age.
