Boris Gelfand Quotes
A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea is to deceive the public and to make short draws and go home. It's not true. It's a lie.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.
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Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
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However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
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Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good.
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But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.
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I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.
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Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.
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I can't form a total picture of things. Because I'm not her.
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Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.
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When you win a Grammy... you're thinking about you winning. It is amazing. Your peers and folks in the record business are saying, 'This is what we think of you.' And that's why the Grammy will always be, to me, the ultimate in what you get as far as a music trophy, because it is the one.
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Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are
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Therapy is so personal but it can be a really amazing tool so long as you are not forced into it.
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We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.
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Ballet has a very small audience, unfortunately.
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If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.
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A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea is to deceive the public and to make short draws and go home. It's not true. It's a lie.
