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.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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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.
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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.
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the 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.
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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.
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My friends are very opinionated about the people I date.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Most entertainment careers aren't going to end in fame.
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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.
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I always rate a convention by the lack of blisters from twiddling my thumbs.
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Football is a game of business. You don't work for free.
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One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.
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Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.
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What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him.
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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.
