Viswanathan Anand Quotes
There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.
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You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.
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I have to prove everything. Especially when you're coming from an off year after the injuries, and you come back, and you have to prove a lot of things to the fans, to the team, to your teammates, to the sport. You have to prove a lot of things out there on the field.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?
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I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.
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A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.
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The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny.
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Parents are rule givers.
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There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.
