Boris Gelfand Quotes
The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic.
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As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
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Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
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I never was a very good singer.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.
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We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.
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You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive.
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It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article about him basically saying, 'Well, you know, he's controversial.' It's like, 'No, he's a dangerous idiot who needs the help of a good psychiatrist!'
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Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.
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The channels of human mental development... are circuitous and variable. Rather than specify a single trait, human genes prescribe the capacity to develop a certain array of traits.
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The fraction of Americans working in occupations concerned primarily with information has increased from 20 to nearly 50 percent of the work force.
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Nothing fundamental separates the course of human history from the course of physical history.
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Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
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If the guests want to wrest the check away from the host, because the host is also the guest of honor, then the guest who volunteers has to cover the whole thing. A guest can't volunteer -all- of the guests to pay for the host/honoree.
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Vae victis!
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All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.
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Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.
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The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic.
