Viswanathan Anand Quotes
Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.
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I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on the other side, and it's his bad luck that he was born there and it's my good fortune that I was born here. It's all kind of illogical.
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My father always told me, 'Before you become a queen, you have to learn how to take care of your own things.' So I knew how to do all of it, but I had never really done it on a daily basis. So I was cleaning houses, and I started working restaurants.
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I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.
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Compare the saint who, asked what he would do if he had only an hour to live, replied that he would go on with his game of chess, since it was as much worship as anything else he had ever done.
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Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.
