Garry Kasparov Quotes
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Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
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I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
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I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
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It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
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The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.
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I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.
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At about 17, I decided I wanted to take kiteboarding seriously and compete, so my agents were like, 'Just keep sending in a few audition tapes anyway, just for good stuff.'
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But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov
