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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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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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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I went to see President Nixon at the White House. It wasn't difficult to get a meeting because I was heavyweight champion of the world. So I came to Washington and walked around the garden with Nixon, his wife and daughter. I said: I want you to give Ali his licence back. I want to beat him up for you.
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A sculpture is something that if it falls on your foot, it will break it.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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To have to watch myself in a way that was constructively critical was really good for me because it made me a little bit more easy on myself because I wasn't allowed to walk away screaming.
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It is true that I have been studying both humility and pride for many years for the purpose of weakening pride in my own life and cultivating humility by the grace of God.
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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.
