David Bronstein Quotes
Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most thorough fashion.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant.
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
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I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
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When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.
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Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.
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With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.
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Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
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This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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I think there are opportunities outside India as well as in India. In fact, some of the largest projects that most Indian software companies are doing are in India.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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I'm a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World.
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Either faith in Christ can cleanse all people of their sin, or none, but not some... The truth of Christ's death, resurrection and power over sin is absolute.
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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
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Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most thorough fashion.
