Alexandra Kosteniuk Quotes
My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.
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All Democrats are not entitlement people. These are the people who are going to suffer the cost of Obama health care. These are the people who are suffering because there're no jobs.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
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I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
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The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
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I just feed off the energy of the audience.
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Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
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The biggest test for any cricketer in England is the weather.
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Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.
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With all due respect to the people who made the motorcycle movies during the '60s, I felt the sophistication level could be a bit higher, and I felt I could raise the bar on that, too.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.
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Hustle ... Your excuses are someone else's motivation.
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I pray that we will treat each and every one of our Heavenly Father's children lovingly, tenderly, and individually, as He would have us treat them. I also pray that we will always be mindful of the power each one of us has to make a difference and to influence the world in which we live.
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A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing … You come to a point where you have sung, more or less … your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living. You know, up until that point, I hadn't had a life. I'd been searching, been on the road.
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My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.
