Vladimir Kramnik Quotes
My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
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What I've noticed is not only in the military, but in the first responders community, that when you reach out your hand to help one of them, they almost always grab your hand with only one of theirs, because they're using their other hand to reach behind them and pull up somebody else with them.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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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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I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.
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Someone will write a resolution that says, 'I want to exercise more,' or 'I want to lose 15 pounds' - which is great, that's a great goal to have - but every study tells us that if you pose things in abstract, goal-related terms, it's much less likely that you will accomplish it than if you structure it as an actual activity.
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I always watched the show thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to be a member?', but I never thought it would happen.
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Sending $300 to your grandma in Cuba doesn't change the dynamic with Castro.
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My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.
