Bent Larsen Quotes
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San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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Web GIS allows us to take our systems of record - our traditional server and desktop technologies - and integrate them, bringing them together into a system of systems.
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
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I now understand how varied the world of cultivated rice is; that rice can play the lead or be a sidekick; that brown rice is as valuable as white; and that short-grain rice is the bee's knees.
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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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On television, it's all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag for the ordinary people who are not quite sure that they are getting it right.
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You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.
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Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.
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My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings.
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We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play.
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I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.
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All your mannerisms change easily when you have inch-long acrylic nails.
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I often play a move I know how to refute.
