Anatoly Karpov Quotes
People knew about 110 years of chess history. Nowadays, nobody is able to tell you the name of the world champion of 2000.
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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I have a great office.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!
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Definitely, I'm always nice. Sometimes I wish I could be naughty, I'm just a little too boring.
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Stronger families. Stronger communities. A stronger America. It is this kind of prosperity - broad, shared, built on a thriving middle class - that has always been the source of our progress at home. It’s also the foundation of our power and influence throughout the world.
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If you can’t distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn’t undertake philanthropic work.
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There are features that African Americans have that are similar! There are features that white people have that are similar! Features that Hispanic people have that are similar!
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Among the lessons learned in my lifetime is the ease with which corruption can enter high places in the mask of friendship. Sometimes the recipient is not aware of the barbed hook under the gift; often, he who gives may not know but be the unwitting agent of a craftier mind.
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People knew about 110 years of chess history. Nowadays, nobody is able to tell you the name of the world champion of 2000.
