Amadeo Giannini Quotes
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
I think America has a brilliant future.
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I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
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We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
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I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
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The one thing you can control is effort.
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When I took my shirt off against Caen, everybody asked what these new tattoos were. I had 15 removable tattoos on my body; they are the names of real people who are suffering from hunger in the world.
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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
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It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
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I really do think artists are the most important people on the planet, and if what I do is a utility and helps them, then that makes me happy. I want to be helpful.
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A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs.
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Ildefonse said ponderously: 'If your analysis is correct, we must undertake to secure the future against this pangynic nightmare.'
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Yet now, as he roared across the night sky toward an unknown destiny, he found himself facing that bleak and ultimate question which so few men can answer to their satisfaction. What have I done with my life, he asked himself, that the world will be poorer if I leave it.
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'It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.' -Bill Gates, Fortune Magazine, July 17 2007
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My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
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I don't find that writing about parts of my life had much effect except in some cases to improve my memory. To get into parts of the past I want to recall very vividly, I use a form of directed meditation.
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Women don't like violence, But when their husbands desert them, that is different.
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I don't want to make an 'Animal House.' I'm not interested in making 'Ghost Busters.'
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I used to speak Algerian, but I'd lost nearly everything.
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Money itch is a bad thing. I never had that trouble.
