Quotes with chess-board

Quotes 21 till 40 of 78.

  • Bill Gurley Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.
    Bill Gurley
    American businessman (1966 - )
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  • Sean O'Casey Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner's free will in an embattled circle.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Marcel Duchamp I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.
    Marcel Duchamp
    French painter and sculptor (1887 - 1968)
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  • Germaine Greer I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Busy Philipps I do think moms should be given a break, all across the board. And I think that the most important thing is that you're healthy. After I had my little girl, I wanted to be healthy for her and have a healthy body image so that she hopefully grows up to see that her self worth isn't defined by how thin she is.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Søren Kierkegaard I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Bobby Fischer I felt that chess is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Anne Campbell I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think this would be best way of continuing the long tradition of Cambridge United in Cambridge - and it was a generous offer.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • Albert Einstein I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Garry Kasparov I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
    Garry Kasparov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz If somebody's going on your board, and you're going to be C.E.O., it will help if that person knows how to be C.E.O., who has done it before.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Burgess Owens If you apologize to me, I look at it as an insult because my parents, my grandparents, my great-grandparents, like every other culture out there, did exactly what they needed to do. They worked hard, and they became part of the American way, and they earned the respect of Americans across the board. We need to do the same.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Charles Buxton In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
    Charles Buxton
    British writer (1823 - 1871)
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  • Boris Spassky In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Bruno Schulz In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.
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  • Carolyn McCarthy It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.
    Carolyn McCarthy
    American nurse and politician (1944 - )
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer Kasparov is a gangster, he is a disgrace to chess, he is a disgrace to the human race. He is not something Russia should be proud of. He should join Khodorkovsky in prison. He has committed a terrible fraud with all these prearranged games and matches.
    Radio Interview, May 15 2005 [29]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Arthur Rock Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.
    Arthur Rock
    American businessman and investor (1926 - )
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  • Khaled Hosseini Life is a train, get on board.
    The Kite Runner
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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