#w

I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#champion #defend #else #i #i think

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

#am #areas #based #difference #exactly

I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#collaborate #compete #connect #equal #ever

No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

#causes #crimes #effects #how #i

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

#cultural #difference #differences #experience #gender

And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away. ↗

— Peter Sotos

#blown #blown away #books #distribution #fears

But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print. ↗

— Peter Sotos

#now #out #print #right #situation

Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion. ↗

— Peter Sotos

#fashion #further #furthering #i #idea

Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies. ↗

— Peter Sotos

#creates #further #how #i #language

If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas. ↗

— Peter Sotos

#always #any #bunch #creation #generally