Quotes 21 till 40 of 42.
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Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.
Source: Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961) -
That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one.
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The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.
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The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different- to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
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The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.
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The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?
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The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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The United States is evil. There's this axis of evil. What about the allies of evil - the United States, England, Japan, Australia? These are the evildoers.
Source: Press conference in Iceland, March 25 2005 [28] -
There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player.
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There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.
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They are subhuman. They are the scum of the Earth. When you talk about Jews, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel of humanity.
Source: Radio Interview, October 16 1999 [22] -
They have nothing on me, those guys. They can't even touch me. Some people rate them better than me. That really bugs me. They think that no Americans play chess. When I meet those Russian patzers I'll put them in their place.
Source: Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961) -
They're lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They're a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
Source: Radio Interview, March 10 1999 [8] -
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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Wanted to change the rules already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorization and prearrangement. It's a terrible game now. Very uncreative.
Source: Radio Interview, October 16 2006 [31] -
What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.
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Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member.
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