Joshua Waitzkin Quotes

My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And so I could love it. I had a passion for it. I was expressing myself through chess, and I was learning about myself through chess.

Joshua Waitzkin

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What I noticed about L.A. is that people try to hit on you in your car. It's incredibly creepy to be in a car and have the guy next to you roll down his window.

Jessica Lucas

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The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.

Angela Bassett

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I would say my strengths are vision and strategy.

John T. Chambers

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The more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become.

Trevor Moore

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Hopefully kids will look at me and see that your dreams can come true.

Roy Keane

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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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I spent summers in my room listening to cast albums, like 'Les Miserables,' every night. I knew it backwards and forwards. I want to be the first black Jean Valjean.

Brandon Victor Dixon

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When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'

Bobby Knight

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The tax money belongs to the taxpayers. It doesn't belong to the bureaucracy. And government is not a welfare system.

Bruce Rauner

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My next project is 'Venus Vs,' which is a documentary that follows tennis star Venus Williams and her effort to get equal-award pay for women at Wimbledon. Most people don't realize that Venus fought for years to make sure women and men winners of that tennis championship received the same amount in award money.

Ava DuVernay

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Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Anne Frank

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A political revolution must proceed simultaneously with the nationalist revolution. When we overthrow the Manchu regime, we will achieve not only a nationalist revolution against the Manchus but also a political revolution against monarchy. They are not to be carried out at two different times.

Sun Yat-sen

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