Wilhelm Steinitz Quotes
Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
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I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
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When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.
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America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching.
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I know the old ways. There’s nothing evil there, only strange, and not even strange when you know it.
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I decline the election. - It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.
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But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six-the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.
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We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here.
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A boy is not a sitting-down animal.
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There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses.
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I think that people have realized it's very unwise to bet against Donald Trump.
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
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By putting a border line between life and death, we separate the world of death from our world of life, casting the dead away into the "world of oblivion".
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Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.
