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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The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
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People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media.
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I'm a technician. It's like that in football and the same way in golf. I want to try to find a way that I can swing the club properly. Over the years, it's getting better and better.
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I love the English aesthetic; in a way, I feel it is close to my own, a beautiful chaos; it is a powerful mix of the past and the present.
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You never really get to the point in any offense - even when I was in New England for six years - where things don't change.
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Your only task in the opening is to reach a playable middlegame.
