Gene LeBell Quotes
People think they can take a pill and become a champion. But the harder you work, the luckier you get. You have to work a move hundreds or thousands of times.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
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In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
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Many people decide to jump from niche to niche, as they cannot find success immediately with the niche that they have chosen for their online business.
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As a child, I used 'gay' as a bad word, as in, 'That's so gay.' All my friends did.
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What was the American Revolution? The people who joined to carry it out had different views of what they had done.
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Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.
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The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.
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There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub.
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Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.
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I'm interested in the way the whole cultural landscape can shift over time. Okay, this will seem like a silly example, but look at the whole discourse around "selling out," a concept people say is irrelevant because there's no more distinction between mainstream and underground, inside and outside (which I don't really believe, but that's another issue).
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When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science of espionage. I realized there is a connection between the sciences and the invisible forces of man.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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As a professional track cyclist, I have always challenged myself, and I enjoy seeing how I cope when faced with the unknown.
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When I'm on the field, the trick I like to do most are stepovers. For me, it's a simple, beautiful dribble that also has a point.
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People think they can take a pill and become a champion. But the harder you work, the luckier you get. You have to work a move hundreds or thousands of times.
