Alexander Khalifman Quotes
Rating systems work perfectly for players who play only in round robin closed events. I think most of them are overrated. Organizers invite same people over and over because they have the same rating and their rating stays high.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.
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We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
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To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.
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I will not be collateral damage in a presidential campaign, nor will I be a woman bullied by Hillary Clinton.
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The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.
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Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.
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I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge.
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I knew if I had gone to school - if I had gone to Juilliard and danced for four years - I would have spent every day wondering what would have happened if I had gone to Los Angeles instead.
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When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before.
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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
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I probably write 10 things to every one that I want to use. It's easy for me to write something that's so poppy that it's wrong for me. If I was 22 years old... it's easy for me to write something that's less mature than I am or ought to be. I'm looking for something that acts my age.
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You receive the light through what you read, through what you hear in meditation, or through some spiritual practice.
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Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.
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This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes.
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Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.
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Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.
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I'm obsessed with Led Zeppelin and have been since I was a teenager.
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No member of any 'grouping' should be judged by the activity of some other individual in that same grouping.
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Rating systems work perfectly for players who play only in round robin closed events. I think most of them are overrated. Organizers invite same people over and over because they have the same rating and their rating stays high.
