Vladimir Kramnik Quotes
Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.

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Let's make Jeb Bush explain his plan to give millionaires another massive tax cut.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identities than other superheroes. No one ever says, 'Peter Parker was a nerdy kid. He can't possibly be Spider-Man, attract a good-looking gal, work in a newspaper, etc.' And no one gets hung up on whether his nerdiness is a disguise.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
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For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.
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You know, I've had my ups and downs.
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Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even in an age so ferociously anti-romantic as our own, to write fantastic stories for adults: though you will usually need to have made a name in some more fashionable kind of literature before anyone will publish them.
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In the NFL, if you make the play or you don't make the play, you're just a football player who did or didn't make the play. You don't get more yards or less yards based on what you're labeled as by society.
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Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.