Hans Berliner Quotes
You don't have to be really good anymore to get good results. What's happening with Chess is that it's gradually losing its place as the par excellence of intellectual activity. Smart people in search of a challenging board game might try a game called Go.
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Everyone has hiccups in their families.
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I never was a very good singer.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I do tell people when I'm walking down the street that they should really rethink their whole outfit.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.
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In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at.
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But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.
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Worse than thieves, murderers, or cannibals, those who offer compromise slow you and sap your vitality while pretending to be your friends. They are not your friends. Compromisers are the enemies of all humanity, the enemies of life itself. Compromisers are the enemies of everything important, sacred, and true.
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A great deal of her obscurity and cant, Tenar had begun to realize, was mere ineptness with words and ideas. Nobody had ever taught her to think consecutively. Nobody had ever listened to what she said. All that was expected, all that was wanted of her was muddle, mystery, mumbling. She was a witchwoman. She had nothing to do with clear meaning.
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Manipulated, one manipulates others.
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Can't get up in the morning lately and I'm just sunk in a dream I'm always the ship in the stream
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Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.
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Nor is it a matter for wonder that the good do not appear herded in great thongs. First because specimens of great goodness are rare, secondly, because they avoid the great crowd of the more thoughtless and keep themselves at leisure for the contemplation of what nature has to show.
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Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the environment in which it lives, interlocked with other species to form ecosystems upon which our own lives depend in ways we have not begun even to imagine.
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I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.
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Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.
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The feeling that makes 'Warcraft' work as a game is that feeling that heroism can come out of anything or anyone.
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You don't have to be really good anymore to get good results. What's happening with Chess is that it's gradually losing its place as the par excellence of intellectual activity. Smart people in search of a challenging board game might try a game called Go.
