Vladimir Kramnik Quotes
Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.
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Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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My mom was a teacher. In the 1960s and '70s, she taught history at two largely African American public high schools in Washington, D.C. - McKinley Tech and H.D. Woodson. Her example taught me the importance of equality for all Americans.
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When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior. A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.
