Vladimir Kramnik Quotes
With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.
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It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.
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The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.
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In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.
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Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records.
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The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.
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I think it has real promise as long as there isn't some unexpected safety issue.
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I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why.
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We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.
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Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator.
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Elvis had animal magnetism, he was even sexy to the guys, I can't imagine what the chicks used to think.
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Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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For the record, I am not going anywhere ... I'm very happy in the Cavaliers' uniform and I'm going to be wearing this uniform for a long time, OK?
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To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.
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I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them.
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What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artist’s subject be religious to be Christian? I don’t think so. There is a certain sense in which art is its own justification. If art is good art, if it is true art, if it is beautiful art, then it is bearing witness to the Author of the good, the true, and the beautiful
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And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
