Viswanathan Anand Quotes
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Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov -
I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not engaged in subversive work; she was an apolitical project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news agency.
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.
Garry Kasparov
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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
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Getting more and more of our news from the social network is having significant repercussions for markets - and your money.
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There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.
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I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.
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I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.
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I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
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Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
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Mark Zuckerberg needs no introduction these days, what with all the magazine covers and morning news shows. My mother knows who he is now, and my mother can hardly turn on a computer.
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'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone.
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Of course managers win ball games.
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Someone – a man – advised me not to become a news anchor because my eyelashes were too long, and they would distract the viewers.
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It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.
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Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.
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Smart authors, faced with storms, chose to create umbrellas. That's why a diverse group of authors banded together to create The Fiction Writer's Co-op, which will work to find innovative ways to promote each other's work and cheer each other on in a very competitive field.
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You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own.
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Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.
