Alexander Khalifman Quotes
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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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 live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
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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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We are going to have to make some very difficult choices, because state government cannot continue to spend more than it takes in.
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I have proved myself as a complete package, so people can be more confident about investing in me, and I do expect a little more trust from the industry members.
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One thing I have always promised is to be open and transparent and to treat employees and partners with respect and integrity.
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Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.
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I respect people of faith, but I'm not one.
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One should respect a defeated opponent!
