Akiba Rubinstein Quotes

Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces

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• Let's make Jeb Bush explain his plan to give millionaires another massive tax cut.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Give
  • Plan
  • Tax

• What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Should
  • Matter
  • Say

• Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Live
  • Real
  • Together

• There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Way
  • Football
  • Concerns

• 'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I love doing serious movies for adults.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Serious
  • Doing
  • Movies

• I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Surprised

• I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Country
  • Home
  • Yourself

• Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Idea
  • Organization
  • Social

• I want to be a dominant pass rusher. I think I can do that with my body type and my work ethic.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins
  • Work

• Temporary solutions often become permanent problems.

  

  Craig Bruce

• 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill' happens to be my favorite album.

  

  Ella Mai
  • Favorite
  • Album

• I think religion is very personal. I definitely identify as Muslim. I consider myself practicing, but I don't think people who observe me from the outside would think of me as devout, and that doesn't bother me because one of the beauties of Islam is the fact that it is personal: you read the Koran, and what you believe is what you believe.

  

  Maysoon Zayid
  • People
  • Believe

• There is no moderator or ombudsman online, and while the transparency of the web usually means that information is self-correcting, we still have to keep in mind the responsibility each of us carries when the power of the press is at our fingertips and in our pockets.

  

  Matt Mullenweg
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Responsibility

• Yves Saint Laurent didn't have friends. He loved nobody. He was intimate with nobody.

  

  Betty Catroux
  • Friends

• Aretino, like Rabelais and Cervantes, proclaimed the meaning of Typography as Gargantuan, Fantastic, Supra-human. (p. 220)

  

  Marshall McLuhan

• Between the theme parks and the movies, the Disney iconography was probably the first set of archetypes that I was exposed to. Walt was able to expose me as a child to the full array of emotions, including fear and sorrow. Those movies and attractions haunted my dreams and made a deep impression on me as a child.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • Fear
  • Deep
  • Disney

• I believe in the empirical wisdom of science, just to start with, so I hope that there might be some treatment out there that might be helpful.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Science

• Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change.

  

  Gabrielle Roth
  • Body
  • Movement
  • Healing

• I don't know if I'm really the fastest. It doesn't matter.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Knows
  • Matter
  • Ifs

• There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage, and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Player
  • Chess

• Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very deeply by many opponents, and theory, based on a small number of 'reliable' games, must be rather unreliable.

  

  Bent Larsen
  • Play
  • Games
  • Opponents

• Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces

  

  Akiba Rubinstein
  • Chess
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