Boris Gelfand Quotes

I believe that, not only in chess, but in life in general, people place too much stock in ratings – they pay attention to which TV shows have the highest ratings, how many friends they have on Facebook, and it’s funny. The best shows often have low ratings and it is impossible to have thousands of real friends.

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• I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

  

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• In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.

  

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• I'm not the type of person that is forced.

  

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• Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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• In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
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• I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.

  

  Hannibal Buress
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• When liberty returns, I will return.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.

  

  Salma Hayek
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• I have encountered those who feel that libraries have served their purpose and are no longer needed. There are those who consider them a soft target when it comes to local authority budget cuts. In certain political quarters, there is a refusal to see that our public library service needs active protection.

  

  Malorie Blackman
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• And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.

  

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• The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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• Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
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• Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.

  

  Zack Snyder
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• In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.

  

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• All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.

  

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• All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.

  

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• In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today.

  

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• When you know what pain is, and when you have to make a choice, you learn that it is a decision. People think it's a fairytale thing, love and happiness, but you have to work hard. And then - you feel it deeply.

  

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• History has proven that when the people of Israel unite under a serious and responsible leadership, we know how to overcome all challenges and overcome all obstacles.

  

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  • People
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• I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.

  

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  • Black

• I believe that, not only in chess, but in life in general, people place too much stock in ratings – they pay attention to which TV shows have the highest ratings, how many friends they have on Facebook, and it’s funny. The best shows often have low ratings and it is impossible to have thousands of real friends.

  

  Boris Gelfand
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