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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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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And in that town a dog was found,As many dogs there be,Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound,And curs of low degree.
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The landscape problem and the problem of background independence are closely linked. The latter is the only route the former has to experimental confirmation.
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I text my girlfriends. I look at Facebook. I check my e-mail. If I'm away from the news cycle more than a few hours, I feel out of touch.
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A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both. But with God we're both born of Him and adopted by Him.
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Ideally, it would be cool to actually get to know artists enough to know what their feelings are, what they believe in, what they want people to get from them, what they represent.
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Your only task in the opening is to reach a playable middlegame.
