Vladimir Kramnik Quotes
I don't know whether computers are improving the style of play, I know they are changing it. Chess has become a different game, one could say that computers have changed the world of chess. That is pretty clear.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.
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I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
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See the minutes, how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.
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Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?
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That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.
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I don't know whether computers are improving the style of play, I know they are changing it. Chess has become a different game, one could say that computers have changed the world of chess. That is pretty clear.
