Nigel Short (Nigel David Short) Quotes
If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.
Nigel Short
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But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program.
Dana Rohrabacher
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I never was a very good singer.
Jackson Browne
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
Randeep Hooda
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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
E. M. Forster
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
Manuel Puig
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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
Nathaniel Branden
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Young Joel Benenson supported - well, I - you know, look, I supported Bobby Kennedy, not Eugene McCarthy in '68. I mean, that's where I landed.
Joel Benenson
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There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.'
Alexander Payne
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With climate change, we are living on borrowed time. If we do not address these issues today, it is going to be much more expensive later on, and that is why we need to take action now.
Johan Eliasch
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His words were simple words enough,And yet he used them so,That what in other mouths was roughIn his seemed musical and low.
James Russell Lowell
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Ὁ δίκαιος ἀταρακτότατος, ὁ δ᾽ ἄδικος πλείστης ταραχῆς γέμων.
Epicurus
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
Gabrielle Zevin
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I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable.
Mitchell Baker
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Well, I think that when I perform on the road I always thank the audience for buying a ticket because it's a big deal to buy a ticket for a live entertainment, get a baby-sitter and pay for the meal, the parking, whatever.
Kathy Griffin
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One can be committed to conformity or one can be committed to truth, but not both.
George H. Smith
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I felt squeezed in that vise along with the mass of everyday things and people, and I had a bad taste in my mouth, a permanent sense of nausea that exhausted me, as if everything, thus compacted, and always tighter, were grinding me up, reducing me to a repulsive cream.
Elena Ferrante
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If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.
Nigel Short
