Viswanathan Anand Quotes
I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.
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Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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I am supposed to set an example to young players.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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Stars arrive on their own timetable.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.
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When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
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Tough times call for tough choices and pinching every penny.
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You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem. It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.
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I would love to work with Matt Damon.
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Women are tough campaigners. They certainly know how to withstand attacks. And I think we make a mistake if we say, as some do, that women should play by different rules, or that they are somehow especially vulnerable to the rules of politics. I don't think that's true.
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An organized mind leads effortlessly to good decision-making.
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I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general.
