"Your Soviet players are cheating, losing the games on purpose to my rival, Botvinnik, in order to increase his points on the score. - (to Stalin in Moscow 1936 where he finished in 1st place, 1 point ahead of Botvinnik)"

-- Jose Raul Capablanca

#Cheating Quotes #Player Quotes #Games Quotes

“The special harm attaching to prior restraint is that the government can keep materials from reaching the public, so there can be no accountability, no judgment by the people that the power to suppress was wrongly exercised.”

Source : Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.219, Broadview Press
“My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.”
“You can survive without a label... matter a fact, you're better off without one!”
“I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.”

Source : "Anson Mount Hell on Wheels Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 09, 2011.
“I ask the stunt guys, all the time, to do as much of the stunts as possible, and they let me do a lot. They don't throw me through windows because they're not allowed to and I probably wouldn't say yes to that. But I have done a lot of physical acting before, in theater, so that comes very natural to me.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.”
“After saying the jobs bill is paid for, President Obama now says that it will be paid for by raising taxes over 10 years. I can't figure out if he's the kind of guy who makes infomercials, or the kind of guy who falls for infomercials.”
“In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.”

Source : "Tynan on Richardson". The Observer Magazine, December 18, 1977.

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