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.William Ewart Napier
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I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
Daniel Cormier -
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.
Kate Adie -
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.
Gary Ross -
For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
Damon Galgut -
I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.
Flo Rida -
My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.
Ja Rule
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
J. D. Vance -
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.
Tao Okamoto -
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
J. B. Priestley -
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.
Edie Campbell -
Clients usually come to me when they want to update the look of an existing room.
Candice Olson
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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.
Fiona Apple -
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.
Adam Hicks -
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.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized.
Yoweri Museveni -
I think this is a pile of shit, while John Sinclair rots in prison.
Abbie Hoffman -
Stood for his country’s glory fast,And nail’d her colours to the mast!
Walter Scott
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Patience! Hence-that word was madeFor brutes of burthen, not for birds of prey;Preach it to mortals of a dust like thine,-I am not of thine order.
Lord Byron -
I think that with the proliferation of writing programs, people tend to forget that you also have to get used to working alone, and you have to be your own support.
Mary Gaitskill -
Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.
Ludwig Bemelmans -
it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom
Paul Auster -
Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.
William Ewart Napier