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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Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
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We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. If somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what's going to happen when they see a documentary they don't like or news reports they don't like."
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And so we have one of the great ironies of the early Christian tradition. The profoundly Jewish religion of Jesus and his followers became the viciously anti-Jewish religion of later times, leading to the horrific persecutions of the Middle Ages and the pogroms and attempted genocides that have plagued the world down to recent times.6 Anti-Semitism as it has come down to us today is the history of specifically Christian reactions to non-Christian Jews. It is one of the least savory inventions of the early church.
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With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.
