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.Alexandra Kosteniuk
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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.
Carl Paladino -
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
J. Michael Straczynski -
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng -
I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
Quentin Crisp -
You get steely nerves playing poker.
Nate Silver
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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.
Gautam Adani -
I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
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.
Gabrielle Union -
I just feed off the energy of the audience.
Larry David -
Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.
Sabrina Bryan -
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Gaston Bachelard
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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.
Samantha Bond -
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.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
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.
Aaron Eckhart -
Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.
Wayne Dyer -
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.
Larry Bishop -
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.
Laure Manaudou
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Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.
Ambrose Bierce -
I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive.
Don Johnson -
I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.
Rachel Cusk -
When we separate music from life we get art.
John Cage -
Life is too short to be able to love as one should.
Queen Christina -
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.
Alexandra Kosteniuk