Lajos Portisch Quotes
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I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
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I've been blessed with a wonderful husband, two caring daughters and sons-in-law, and four really special grandchildren. They have each enhanced my life.
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We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
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I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
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I ask myself what I can do to become like Messi and Ronaldo and score 50 or 60 goals in a season.
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The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.
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I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
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I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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I get scripts and think, 'There's not enough here to get my teeth stuck into.' That's a result of studying English, where you luxuriate in these big, lush novels.
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I learned how to handle myself in the kitchen - where to stand and how to be out of people's way and how to function like a machine.
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Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.
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The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
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Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
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Everything is deeply intertwingled.
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I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.
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They had clearly feared turn-of-the-century irrationality-religious overzealousness on one side, destructive hedonism on the other, with both heated by ideological intolerance and corporate greed.
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Men go after me, and I choose among them.
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I knew I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know I would specifically be in film. I actually never thought I would be in film. I always envisioned being on the stage.
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I feel like I enjoy the company of Whoopi deeply, and my private life is my private life.
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I make the majority of my money from Patron, but my passion is with Paul Mitchell: I spend 85 per cent of my time on it.
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Newsreader: A huge asteroid could destroy Earth! And by coincidence, that's the subject of tonight's miniseries. Dogbert: In science, researchers proved that this simple device can keep idiots off your television screen. TV remote control Click.
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Your only task in the opening is to reach a playable middlegame.
