Aslan Maskhadov Quotes
I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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I always like to sing barefoot.
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I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
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In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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Eventually I got the call for 'Iron Man,' and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room - it was videotaped, and I'm sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it.
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I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
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I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
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A decade and a half after victory in the Cold War and end-of-history triumphalism, the 'what do you leave behind' question is more urgent than most of us expected. The Western world, as a concept, is dead and the West, as a matter of demographic fact, is dying.
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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
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I'm so proud, and it feels brilliant to be a world champion.
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I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.
