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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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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If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?
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Claghorn had long insisted that no human condition endured forever, with the corollary that the more complicated such a condition, the greater its susceptibility to change.
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You got to deal with reviews the same way you deal with your views, which I a long time ago stopped reading because the point is if you believe the good ones you have to believe the bad ones. It's kind of all or nothing.
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Ultimately what is not needed now is recriminations.
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A head is not drawn until you can feel the unseen side.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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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.
