Alexander Khalifman Quotes
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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Our focused customers are small business and young people. We did a great job in China. How can we help those young people in India, in Pakistan, in Africa. If they can use in the same ways.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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The whole freedom-of-speech thing is great. But I don't think that our Founding Fathers predicted social media when they created all of these amendments and stuff.
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I think the people who probably have it the best are the people on cable like on 'Entourage', 'the Sopranos', etc. who have 13 episodes per season and breaks to do films and theatre. I think that's the most ideal life.
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
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There are people who have energy that say 'don't come near me, don't get too close.' There's people like Adrienne Shelley who have the energy of 'come over here and give me a hug and if you're around me you're going to be happy about it.'
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One of the great things going on in Chicago is the educational facilities here. And the largest film school in the world is right here in Chicago: Columbia College.
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A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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We esteem, honor, and love the apostles more than the other saints, because they served God more faithfully and because they loved Him more perfectly.
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I really liked 'Super 8'. If Steven Spielberg is an executive producer of anything, you know that it's going to be amazing!
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I would say a lack of sleep is a cause for feeling not so beautiful. On those days, I try to drink lots of water and put on the biggest sunglasses I can find.
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A good wanderer leaves no trace.
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People knew about 110 years of chess history. Nowadays, nobody is able to tell you the name of the world champion of 2000.
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My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.
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One should respect a defeated opponent!
