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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I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.
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How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
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I don't ever think it's a good idea to try to recreate the success you've had before; it's all about chasing something fresh and new.
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It's time to level the playing field for small business owners and give them the same health care choices that large corporations have. Because they don't have as many employees, they have little ability to negotiate lower rates.
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With the winding down of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States now has an opportunity to implement real defense reforms without having a serious impact on immediate battlefield needs.
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Bush Administration was a success.
Garry Kasparov
