Viswanathan Anand Quotes

In 1996, the players at the VSB tournament in Amsterdam sent me a card for my wedding with this dedication, 'Anand congrats on your wedding. You were a great player, now be ready to lose 50 points'.

Viswanathan Anand

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• Chess
• Dedication
• Humour

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• The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.

  

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• The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

  

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• I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.

  

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• Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.

  

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• I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.

  

  Gary Sinise
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• These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

  

  Sam Snead
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• Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.

  

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• I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.

  

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• 'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.

  

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• I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

  

  Rachel Weisz
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• I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.

  

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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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• So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

  

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• The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

  

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• Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.

  

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  • Work
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• I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

  

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• It's so funny that people think I actually ran for President. I am maybe the most un-political person you're ever going to meet. When I put 'Elected' out, it was definitely a satire ... 'Alice Cooper for President' ... when everybody realized I was running against Nixon, you known, even on a joke level, I think I got a lot of write-in votes.

  

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• Farewell, my friend," Drizzt whispered, trying futilely to keep his voice from breaking. :This journey you make alone.

  

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• ...for her whom in life thou dids't abhor, in death thou shalt adore...

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Life
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• In the spring of 1957, Mickey Mantle was the king of New York. He had the Triple Crown to prove it, having become only the 12th player in history to earn baseball's gaudiest jewel. In 1956, he had finally fulfilled the promise of his promise, batting .353, with 52 homers and 130 RBIs. Everybody loved Mickey.

  

  Jane Leavy
  • History
  • Player
  • Baseball

• In 1996, the players at the VSB tournament in Amsterdam sent me a card for my wedding with this dedication, 'Anand congrats on your wedding. You were a great player, now be ready to lose 50 points'.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Player
  • Chess
  • Dedication