Howard Staunton Quotes

To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.

Howard Staunton

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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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• When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.

  

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• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

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• Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.

  

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• Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!

  

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• I was pretty young when I decided I wanted to, well, more so be a singer. I started singing in church in my hometown, East Orange, New Jersey. I knew when I was about five or six that I wanted to be a performer.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
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• I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

  

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• Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.

  

  Kate Christensen
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• Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Day
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• What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and conditions, whereas entrepreneurs generally have little idea what they will encounter along the way.

  

  Naveen Jain
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• I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
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• My friends are very opinionated about the people I date.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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• My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
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• Für die Romantiker und für die spekulative Philosophie bedeutete der Terminus kritisch: objektiv produktiv, schöpferisch aus Besonnenheit. Kritisch sein hieß die Erhebung des Denkens über alle Bindungen so weit treiben, daß gleichsam zauberisch aus der Einsicht in das Falsche der Bindungen die Erkenntnis der Wahrheit sich schwang.

  

  Walter Benjamin
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• Geoffrey Robertson: You don't think that this man deserves to die?Yusuf Islam: Who, Salman Rushdie?Robertson: Yes.Islam: Yes, yes.Robertson: And do you have a duty to be his executioner?Islam: Uh, no, not necessarily, unless we were in an Islamic state and I was ordered by a judge or by the authority to carry out such an act - perhaps, yes.

  

  Cat Stevens
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• Most entertainment careers aren't going to end in fame.

  

  Tyler Hilton

• You buy a movie, you should get it anywhere you want it. You pay for a network, you should have that anywhere you want. Same thing with a magazine.

  

  Jeffrey Bewkes
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• Our site should be like Paddington Station with a much better version of WH Smith's in it.

  

  Colin Greenwood Radiohead

• I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point.

  

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• When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Up
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• Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Game
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  • Years

• Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people.

  

  John Henrik Clarke
  • People
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• To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.

  

  Howard Staunton
  • Game
  • Skill
  • Correctness