Alexander Alekhine Quotes

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

Alexander Alekhine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: celebrity
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: October 31, 1892 - March 24, 1946

Topics

ArtMyselfMeGameChessYes

You shouldn't really have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound good. It should all be done with microphones and microphone placement.

Jimmy Page

GoodYouDoneSoundMicrophoneUse

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may occupy the same physical space, but we don't occupy the same psychic space.

Jennifer Granholm

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Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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You do not want to talk to me on the phone. How do I know? Because I don't want to talk to you on the phone. Nothing personal, I just can't stand the thing. I find it intrusive and somehow presumptuous. It sounds off insolently whenever it chooses and expects me to drop whatever I'm doing and, well, engage. With others!

Jeffrey Kluger

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I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy.

Michael Biehn

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Tony Robbins

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To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed.

Rod Taylor

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You take what's thrown at you, and you make a life out of it.

Rula Ghani

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I'm not really into the rock n' roll lifestyle; I'm a music geek!

Michael Kiwanuka

MusicLifestyleRockGeekRoll

Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza. The grand masters associate each card with a person, an action, or an object so that every group of three cards can be converted into a sentence.

Joshua Foer

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I think a flat tax has merit. Anything would be better than the current tax code.

Bob Beckel

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