Emanuel Lasker Quotes
The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.
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You would not believe that Paula Patton and I have the same trainer.
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As you may possibly have noticed from time to time, I have tended to make a habit of sticking my head above the parapet and generally getting it shot off for pointing out what has always been blindingly obvious to me.
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I am not an early bird. I go to bed normally between midnight and 1 o'clock, so it is understandable that I cannot be an early bird. I wake up around 9 o'clock.
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People know excessive consumption of anything is bad for health. By imposing a ban on something, we are, in a way, provoking them to do it.
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About the only thing that I have - or had, because it's failing me lately - is my memory. I had a really good memory. I was always terribly protective of that fact.
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A lot of women lose definition around their waist as they get older, which can mean their bottom half can look shapeless.
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We understand what President Trump means when he talks about taking the country back. He does not see America as a country of people from diverse backgrounds united around values of freedom and respect. In his 'American carnage' version of our country, immigrants and refugees are a threat.
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But at the end of the day, every star, every person that been iconic, has gone through a time in their lives where it was just bad. Everybody. It just made them better.
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If you really want to wind up Piers Morgan, send him a pic of Jeremy Clarkson.
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It's always tricky, meeting an author you've admired.
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I think you'll see a lot more people in the Valley get more involved in politics.
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I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too.
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You read 'Stalingrad' by Antony Beevor because you're interested in the Second World War or Russia or whatever.
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Lack of planning is the cause of most failures.
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I think if I'm serious about affecting people with music, I have to affect people on a human to human level, not on a grand social idea or political idea, it has to be a human being idea so it has to be what's inside a human being.
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The lousy guitar player in any band is the bass player.
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The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.
