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.
Zooey Deschanel -
We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
Samantha Power -
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.
J. M. G. Le Clezio -
I ask myself what I can do to become like Messi and Ronaldo and score 50 or 60 goals in a season.
Eden Hazard -
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.
Victoria Abril -
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.
Jackie Stewart
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I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.
Felicia Day -
We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
Wendell Berry -
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.
Ophelia Lovibond -
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.
Manish Dayal -
Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.
J. G. Ballard -
The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
Lady Gregory
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Everything is deeply intertwingled.
Ted Nelson -
I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.
C. S. Lewis -
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.
Octavia E. Butler -
And in that town a dog was found,As many dogs there be,Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound,And curs of low degree.
Oliver Goldsmith -
The landscape problem and the problem of background independence are closely linked. The latter is the only route the former has to experimental confirmation.
Lee Smolin -
My parents encouraged me to be creative by being creative and interesting people themselves, and by making it clear how highly they valued creativity in others.
Karl Iagnemma
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It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.
Charles Sanders Peirce -
You think you know what the Department of Defense is spending? The Department of Defense doesn’t even know what the Department of Defense is spending.
Cintra Wilson -
Your only task in the opening is to reach a playable middlegame.
Lajos Portisch