Viswanathan Anand Quotes
It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.
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Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not try to twist God's will to you own but correct your will to that of God. The will of God is a rule of conduct. By it you have the means of being converted and of correcting your evil ways.
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It's at the very moment you want to give up on your dreams that you must expand them until they move you again.
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For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.
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Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
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It's odd, because 'Mad Men' was the first long-form TV thing I ever did. I'd done loads of independent movies, but after that, it was 'TV actor.' You go, 'When did that happen? Everything else has been erased?'
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It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.
