Viktor Korchnoi Quotes
Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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I've seen my parents dragged through the mud. But I wouldn't be the person I am today without them.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I want to show that theater isn't just talking about feelings or people wearing tights.
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I think soul will always find its way into what I'm doing. It just comes from my root.
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My brother and I did theater in high school, and were both in Pennsylvania Youth Theatre. It was awesome. When you go to Los Angeles, it's a rough city, and it's hard. You drive around in your car in your own little bubble, and there's tons of rejection. Being from the Lehigh Valley helped because it was something so stable.
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck.
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I was proud of how our guys bounced back.
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My serve has killed a small dog ... I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!
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Wait long enough and you reap what you sow. That hold for men. That hold for towns. That hold for a whole country.
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We need to find secular ways to cultivate warm-heartedness. We need secular ways to educate ourselves about inner values. The source of a happy life is within us. Trouble makers in many parts of the world are often quite well educated, so it is not just education that we need. We need to pay attention to inner values.
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Texas is reportedly going to give college students the right to carry guns on campus. So I guess that next semester, every college student in Texas is getting straight A's.
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The artist has tremendous power to change the world.
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I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story.
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But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.
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This fraternity... makes it possible... for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings.
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Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.
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It's so much easier to go to the Sony movie complex when you're disabled. You take a great elevator. You get your own little private viewing area. I love it.
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Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.
