Viktor Korchnoi Quotes
Chess players, people who travel all over the world, should be trusted or else not sent anywhere at all. Why are these four people (Antoshion and three other official 'minders') sent along to supervise us? With their meagre experience, all that thay did was interfere, more than ever before. And when they were needed, they weren't to be found.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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I do have a mouth - I will say. I speak up when I see things I don't care for.
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Data is something we create, but it's also something we imagine.
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The only time I had what you would call life-threatening fear was when I was on the Moon. Towards the end of our stay, we got excited and we were going to do the high jump, and I jumped and fell over backwards. That was a scary time, because if the backpack got broken, I would have had it. But everything held together.
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A Trump presidency - neutral between dictatorships and democracies, opposed to free trade, skeptical of traditional U.S. defense alliances, hostile to immigration - would mark the collapse of the entire architecture of the U.S.-led post-World War II global order.
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Chess players, people who travel all over the world, should be trusted or else not sent anywhere at all. Why are these four people (Antoshion and three other official 'minders') sent along to supervise us? With their meagre experience, all that thay did was interfere, more than ever before. And when they were needed, they weren't to be found.
