Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
Wilhelm Steinitz
Recitation: by Male by Female
Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.'
John C. Reilly
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Most languages spoken by a few thousand people are so complicated they make your head swim; a Siberian yak herder's language is much more complicated than a Manhattan bond trader's.
John McWhorter
PeopleBondLanguageComplicated
If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don't think much of the rest of the newspaper.
Angelina Jolie
GoodMorningMyselfLieRestThink
I believe having judges with real world, frontline experience as a prosecutor is a good thing.
Amy Klobuchar
GoodExperienceWorldBelieveJudges
But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have?
Ron Silver
InfluenceLoseRunWhyOffice
A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.
Michael Ondaatje
PenTorchWriterBlowInsteadUses
No matter what happens, I'm going to protect my kid.
Mindy McCready
MatterProtectKidGoingHappens
Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.
Joseph Lancaster
MenI AmYouthDoubtSometimes
My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life.
Dikembe Mutombo
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Charles Wang, owner of the New York Islanders, serves as something of a cautionary tale in terms of how heavy owner involvement can sink a franchise.
Don Yaeger
New YorkNewInvolvementSinkHeavy
I used to get really jealous of Ron Howard as Opie on 'The Andy Griffith Show' - we were the same age. I would just think, 'God, that little kid can work, and I can't!'
Dennis Haysbert
WorkGodAgeJealousThinkKid
I don't think it's a good thing to talk about women's issues being exactly the same as the issues of trans women because I don't think that's true.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
GoodWomenThinkTrueTalkSame
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