Magnus Carlsen Quotes

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

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• I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Movie
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  • Talking

• I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Myself
  • Name
  • Dirty

• Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?

  

  Karen Horney
  • Me
  • Thought
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• I'm a huge gamer. I'm very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I'm excited about a lot of stuff that's outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Live
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• Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.

  

  Rachel Perry
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  • Hot
  • Too

• I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
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• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  

  Patrick Stewart
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• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
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  • Like
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• Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?

  

  Kara Swisher
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• My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
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• Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily burdensome regulations, ending the continual threats of tax hikes, and addressing the cloud of federal debt that hangs over our economy.

  

  Sam Graves
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• The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

  

  Taylor Hackford
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• Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
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• Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• As kids, we have all handled shot guns. From there on, there is no transition. It stays in the toy box. The idea is to get the transition and bridge the gap between the toy box and the shooting range.

  

  Gagan Narang
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• I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'

  

  Barry Larkin
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• I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.

  

  Adam Arkin
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• Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will.

  

  Kara Swisher
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  • Myself

• Happy will be the men who, having the power and the love and the benevolent forecast to create a park, will do it. They will not be forgotten. The trees and their lovers will sing their praises, and generations yet unborn will rise up and call them blessed.

  

  John Muir
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• When you look at nations today like England, in which great revivals occurred generations ago, there's very little vestige of Christianity left in public life. The Church, by and large, is dead, with only pockets of small Bible-believing churches struggling to make an impact on what's now a very pagan culture.

  

  Ken Ham
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• If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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  • Wait

• Picasso was telling Madame C- that he could paint anywhere and anyhow. That nothing in the world could stop him. That even if he were imprisoned, he would draw on the dust-covered prison walls and on the floor, with his fingers dripped in his own spit. He said he could paint then and there if he wanted to, or if he felt like it.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • World
  • Stop

• Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought.

  

  Cleopatra
  • Misthought

• Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
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