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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Let no man be the object of your jealousy, and when you compete with one another let it not be for the personal advantage of this man or that, but to ensure the safety and prosperity of the city.
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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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It is preferable to regard labour, including, of course, the personal services of the entrepreneur, and his assistants, as the sole factor of production, operating in a given environment of technique, natural resources, capital equipment and effective demand. This is why we have been able to take labour as the sole physical unit which we require in our economic system, apart from units of money and of time.
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With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.
