Emanuel Lasker Quotes
Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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I go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, like 'Aasif Mandvi in a hat,' and see what comes up.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.
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Give peace a chance.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.
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We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly.
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Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess.
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I took on the math-intensive art form of holography and, in my early 20s, traveled the world, living on university fellowships to pursue this esoteric craft. I didn't date much, really - perhaps because I didn't have many hormones, though I didn't know that at the time.
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I was born to argue... I don't know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I think I've mastered the art of argument at a fairly young age.
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I grew up very inspired by 'Superman One' and by kind of the promise of the genre of what a superhero origin story can do.
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Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.
