Vladimir Kramnik Quotes
With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.
Quotes to Explore
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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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My label can mold me into whatever they want me to be. Even with my own style of music, it's pretty much universal. Anybody can listen to it and find something that they like on it. I never really got pressured to be a certain way.
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My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.
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I really want to be able to keep going and I realize that in some aspects I've got to treat myself like an athlete.
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There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe.
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With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.
