Magnus Carlsen Quotes
It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
Quotes to Explore
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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I never was a very good singer.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
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For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
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If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
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If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.
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Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
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As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.
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Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.
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Some people may have their doubts about me. But I feel like there's no shot too hard for me to take.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
