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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Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.
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The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?
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A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious.
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I come from a family of all women and one boy, my brother. We're all women and we're all precocious and opinionated and like to have fun and we always had friends in the house and we were always, like, half-naked.
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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.
