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Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.
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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) -
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'.
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Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.
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Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.
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Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle.
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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.
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Sometimes it helps to know that I just can't do it all. One step at a time is all that's possible - even when those steps are taken on the run.
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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
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Sometimes one of us might be missing because we might be away or something, but there's always four or five.
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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
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Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned.
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Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.
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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
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Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's.
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Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.
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Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.
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Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
Source: Barbara Bush: A Memoir
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