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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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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I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
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Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
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There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
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...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise
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Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.
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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.
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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.
