Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Quotes
It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all.
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I'm blind without my glasses.
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I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.
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I think Eminem should use Auto-Tune.
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I, marry? Oh, I could never bring myself to do it. I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, 'That's a pretty little thing,' after I had finished a picture.
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I thought I should be a fool to allow work to interfere with a delight in the passing moment that I might never enjoy again so fully.
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No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.
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The people considered the most in need of protection were women and children. The sex considered most disposable was men – or males....
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There was a saying of the peasants-the rat cannot call the cat to account. But it was also true that if the moon moves but slowly, still it crosses the city.
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I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird.
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These days, all we hear about is that the industry is in trouble. Everybody is so scared, but our mission statement is having no fear.
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I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window.
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The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
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I love to remember the World Trade Centre walk, but it should not define me.
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I am happy and content because I think I am.
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I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.
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'Up' was the best. The first 10 minutes of that movie made me weep. It was so well done... even if that montage was all I'd seen, just as a short film, that was great. That was my favorite thing of the year.
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What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.
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While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes.
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Oi’m always noble, sir; it’s in my blood. ’As been ever since Oi ate that knight a few years back. Why?
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
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I don't listen to music. I know it's weird, and I have no explanation for that. But I never do.
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It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all.
