Bent Larsen Quotes
All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it may perhaps seem unjust that all their beautiful ideas get no other recognition than a zero on the tournament table.
Bent Larsen
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
Sammi Hanratty
I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
Karl Malone
I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
Oliver Goldsmith
As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
With dance and theatre, I think people get very nervous about not knowing the right things. They feel like they've missed something, or that they're not bright enough to watch it. It's not a test.
Wayne McGregor
The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
Walter Kirn
I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
Ram Charan
Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
Walt Handelsman
I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me better.
Forest Whitaker
If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
Yann Martel
The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.
Joanne Rowling
I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.
L.A. Reid
I am very shy with people I don't know.
Ingmar Bergman
Colour can raise the dead.
Iris Apfel
Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to see if water moves faster than kerosene. When my father came out to smoke, a fire broke out.
Ada Yonath
I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, 'That's a huge idea.' Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.
Val Kilmer
This is an excellent program. Nobody has said it has done a bad job. It is small. There are only about 50,000 visas a year. ... As I ride my bike around New York City on the weekends, I see what immigrants do for America. This program has dramatically helped.
Chuck Schumer
My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet - something I don't get very often.
Christopher Lee
I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
Gabriel Luna
An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.
Louis Sachar
The time to fix our broken immigration system is now... We need stronger enforcement on the border and at the workplace... But for reform to work, we also must respond to what pulls people to America... Where we can reunite families, we should. Where we can bring in more foreign-born workers with the skills our economy needs, we should.
Barack Obama
The Declaration has a moral power which is of enormous weight and influence. The statement of the rights represent a goal, or a standard, to which every man can look and with which he can compare what he in fact enjoys. The fact that no country was prepared to vote against the Declaration indicates its compelling moral force.
H. V. Evatt
All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it may perhaps seem unjust that all their beautiful ideas get no other recognition than a zero on the tournament table.
Bent Larsen
