Viswanathan Anand Quotes
When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it happened in a late stage of my career.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops - it's a snowball in July. It's not going to work.
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Yes, Bill Clinton is a big flirt.
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Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
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I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.
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When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it happened in a late stage of my career.
