"The fact that a player is very short of time is to my mind, as little to be considered as an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime."

-- Alexander Alekhine

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“I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields.”
“If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.”
“I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.”
“I would say that I've been lucky. Being blessed and not really ever giving up.”
“I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.”

Source : Resignation Address, delivered 12 August 2004
“I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting. It was a lot of work - anything other than Shakespeare was less work. I had a lot of interesting roles, but I don't point to them and say, "That was more interesting than that," because I don't know what the criteria are.”
“Zen provides a structure that supports our exploring the practice and the teachings for ourselves.”

Source : Jean Smith (2007). “The Beginner's Guide to Zen Buddhism”, p.3, Harmony
“I actually got a part in 'The Love Guru', that Mike Myers film. I heard it's awful. I got a Razzie award for it, which I'm quite proud of, but I still haven't seen it. I have no plans to branch out.”

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