William Ewart Napier Quotes
Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.
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I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.
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My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.
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I started modeling with a very negative part of me – I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
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Clients usually come to me when they want to update the look of an existing room.
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You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.
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My parents are my major supporters. I look up to Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey. They have all opened my mind and helped me with my craft.
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It is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespectively of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.
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Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized.
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I think this is a pile of shit, while John Sinclair rots in prison.
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Stood for his country’s glory fast,And nail’d her colours to the mast!
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When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.
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Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that make up a personality.
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No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.
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I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.
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Love is what we have, against time and death, against all the powers ranged to crush us down.
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Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.
