Garry Kasparov Quotes
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I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
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There were many years when I was hand-to-mouth and didn't know how I was gonna make rent. I've done every job under the sun, from busing tables, temping, and working in factories to SAT prep and detailing cars. So to be able to make a living where all I do is write is absolutely liberating.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
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The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
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All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
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As you become more successful, the gender barrier disappears. The credibility challenges you have during your growing up years starts disappearing when you start demonstrating success.
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Success comes when you do what you love to do, and commit to being the best in your field.
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You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?'
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It's never too late to do the right thing, and America deserves much better than either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton can offer us. I humbly offer myself as a leader who can give millions of disaffected Americans a conservative choice for president.
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Bush Administration was a success.
Garry Kasparov
