Vladimir Kramnik Quotes
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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I never was a very good singer.
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Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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I don't like to talk about girlfriend stuff. It's not necessary. I try to keep my relationships separate from everything else.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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I really love it in Belfast. I always stay in the most bombed hotel, the Europa!
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If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.
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I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.
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Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.
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I like to start my day with a glass of coconut water, some protein powder, and a mix of things - goji berries, flax seeds, hemp seeds, even the flesh of a coconut or anything with a lot of fibre. I often add bananas, or eggs - fried or boiled - to my breakfast.
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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
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Chess is a matter of daily training.
