Adopted Quotes
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No great player blundered oftener than I done. I was champion of the world for twenty-eight years because I was twenty years ahead of my time. I played on certain principles, which neither Zukertort nor anyone else of his time understood. The players of today, such as Lasker, Tarrasch, Pillsbury, Schlechter and others have adopted my principles, and as is only natural, they have improved upon what I began, and that is the whole secret of the matter.
Wilhelm Steinitz -
Sometimes, the hardest foster children to take are teenage boys, which I was one, and I was never adopted or anything, and so I think if people up more for teenage boys, that might be beneficial.
Antwone Fisher
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I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.
will.i.am -
By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.
will.i.am -
It has not been possible to build that society. It set very high standards, because not only would life in the Soviet Union or in any other country which adopted that system, have to be just as good as in the Capitalist world, it would have to be better. So that other peoples, other nations would want to join it, and obviously we have failed in that.
George Blake -
Growing up, I kind of adopted that mentality, going all out, being a warrior.
Nonito Donaire -
I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode.
Michael Nyqvist
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The first ten amendments were proposed and adopted largely because of fear that Government might unduly interfere with prized individual liberties. The people wanted and demanded a Bill of Rights written into their Constitution. The amendments embodying the Bill of Rights were intended to curb all branches of the Federal Government in the fields touched by the amendments-Legislative, Executive, and Judicial.
Hugo Black -
How was Kosovo recognized? They forgot about the territorial integrity of a state, as well as UN Security Council Resolution 1244, which they had themselves adopted and supported. Why could it have been done there, but not in Abkhazia and South Ossetia? Why not?
Vladimir Putin -
Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives...
George Bernard Shaw -
Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.
Tobias Smollett -
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
William Cobbett -
Innovation transforms the useful seeds of invention into widely adopted solutions valued above every existing alternative.
Braden Kelley
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I am a living testament you can be adopted and successful.
Daunte Culpepper -
The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno.
David Bowie -
In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country
Kay Warren -
I have never discovered that the nude could be studied in any way except the way I have adopted. All the muscles must be pointed out. To do this all the drapery must be removed.
Thomas Eakins -
The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children
Paul R. Ehrlich -
Even though I only just found out that I was adopted, God has always known, and he has always loved me. And since that has never changed, therefore nothing has essentially changed. I may not be who I thought I was, but I still am who he says I am. I am more. I am loved. I am his.
Christine Caine
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In America, Qualification is simply an attitude. I've adopted it. So, yes. I am qualified.
Eugene Mirman -
We have less civil liberties than we had on 9/ 1 1 in some significant ways. But we are also, I believe, less safe as a result in many instances of the sacrifice in human rights, civil liberties, and the rule of law that (the Bush) administration has adopted.
David D. Cole