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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Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.
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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 don't think you should limit what you read.
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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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Conversations between parents and kids are important - about race issues, about all kinds of things, about heritage.
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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 don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.
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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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If you sold a million records, the only way you could be disappointed is if the guy down the street sold seven million. But you've got to start dodging bullets once you've sold that many records, because everybody wants to kill you. We're not in that position. We can still be very successful and not have to worry about wearing bulletproof vests.
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The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself.
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It's easier to fight one's enemies than to get on with one's friends.
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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I often play a move I know how to refute.
