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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Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.
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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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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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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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Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.
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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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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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I didn't start singing until I was 16. I was afraid to sing in front of people.
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I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue for the United States to be involved in.
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War made by age and fought by youth while age looked on and applauded and encored.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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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.
