Max Euwe Quotes
Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so we're just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
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I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.
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During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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I grew up in New York.
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You can never lose a true friend.
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Capablanca wanted to change the rules already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorization and prearrangement. It’s a terrible game now. Very uncreative.
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We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.
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People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.
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I want the 'Book of Basketball' to do well if only so I can shop an absolutely ridiculous topic for my next book: like, a book about basketball cards, or an unauthorized biography of A. J. Daulerio.
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Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.
