Emanuel Lasker Quotes
Loss generally occurs when a player overrates his advantage or for other reasons seeks to derive from a minute advantage a great return such as a forced win.Emanuel Lasker
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
Aby Rosen -
I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
Oscar de la Renta -
I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
Sam Heughan -
I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
E. L. Doctorow -
I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure.
Dan O'Brien -
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
Kate Chopin
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
Hank Azaria -
To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
H. Rap Brown -
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
Queen Latifah -
I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.
Faith Prince
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It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I can handle coming fifth as long as I know I've given my all out there and have no regrets.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
Everything goes with blond. You can wear it with any color, and it's great.
Sam Heughan -
And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
A lot of us lead relatively sedentary lifestyles, so you have to motivate yourself and force yourself to go to the gym and do active things. The folks that have figured it out, found that thing that they love and made it a big part of their lives, it's easy for them to stay in shape.
Randy Couture -
It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge.
Win Butler
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Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.
Jerry Saltz -
A lot of women lose definition around their waist as they get older, which can mean their bottom half can look shapeless.
Marie Helvin -
I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.
Eric Cantona -
We were living with Bernard Leach in his home. He had a fantastic collection of early English and Japanese and Chinese and Korean pots and German pots, contemporary English work as well. And we had access to this collection.
Warren MacKenzie -
On a foggy, steel gray Saturday in September 2002, Bennet Omalu arrived at the Allegheny County coroner's office and got his assignment for the day: Perform an autopsy on the body of Mike Webster, a professional football player.
Jeanne Marie Laskas -
Loss generally occurs when a player overrates his advantage or for other reasons seeks to derive from a minute advantage a great return such as a forced win.
Emanuel Lasker