Vladimir Kramnik Quotes
Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
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I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
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Addictive drugs misuse the brain’s existing pre-programming, activating reward mechanisms and extreme feelings of pleasure. When stimulated, the brain’s pleasure centres emit signals to repeat the behaviour. In this sense, the brain is pre-programmed to feel good.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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I don't have a brother in real life.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.
