"It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly."

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Source : "The New Face of Chess Is a Pretty One" by Catherine Donaldson-Evans, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2002.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

#Play Quotes #Chess Quotes #Faces Quotes

“If I ever make a hole in one, A thrill that I've never known, I won't be believed and I'll have no fun, For I'm sure to be playing alone.”
“Being sexy is kind of funny to me.”
“I have been doing commercials on camera since I was ten.”
“Since social media has become so big, body image has taken a downward spiral. Especially in surfing, because we're in bikinis all day, we're really critiqued. After a competition, social media will just be talking about who looked better in a bikini instead of who surfed better. It's not even about the results anymore, so much is body. And that's really frustrating at times.”
“You got rid of them. Yes, thatâ€™s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether â€˜tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end themâ€¦ But you donâ€™t do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. Itâ€™s too easy.”
“The point of taxation isn't that the government knows better than you how to spend your money - it's that the government, by virtue of being the government, can spend money in ways that no private citizen or group no matter how powerful, can.”
“Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.”
“You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.”

Source : Alison Lurie (2012). “The War Between the Tates: A Novel”, p.484, Open Road Media

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