Viktor Korchnoi Quotes
Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
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With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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I think realising that you're individual and unique is really amazing.
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One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
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I love satire. Evelyn Waugh is one of my favorite writers of all time. He's hilarious. He's so wicked. He's so great. On the other hand, pure satire is an imitation. It doesn't really have any heart. It only holds things up to ridicule.
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Our Headmaster is taking a short break," said Professor McGonagall, pointing at the Snape-shaped hole in the window.
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Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.
