Magnus Carlsen Quotes
If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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We were able in the Recovery Act to get a program where we increased our loan guarantees to 90 percent. Because we had that program, a bank wouldn't have to take that much risk.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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A lot of the time, you see all this ambition from these black actors, and it's just pouring off the screen. Because they don't often get a chance to work, and when they do, they don't usually get a chance to work with other black people.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know.
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Over the years I learned that you can have it all - just not at the same time.
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As the founder and former chief executive of two publicly traded companies, I have had a great deal of exposure to how debt markets work.
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If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.
