"In the Soviet Union, for instance, the pressure on the chess stars was immense. When Boris Spassky came home after losing that match, he found he no longer had an apartment in Moscow."

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Liz Garbus

#Home Quotes #Chess Quotes #Losing Quotes

“[T]he price you've paid is not the price of becoming human. It's not even the price of having the things you just mentioned. It's the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world.”
“No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.”
“I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill OReilly.”
“I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.”
“So I'm in the library, and I have keyboards out and my headphones out. Everybody's like, "Mike are you making beats right now?" and I'm like, "Yeah... sorry!"”

Source : Source: ca.complex.com
“The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.”
“When my mother gets a prompt 'Do you want to download this?' she's going to say yes. It's disingenuous for Microsoft to give you all of these tools with which to hang yourself, and when you do, then say it's your fault.”
“Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma.”

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