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“There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck".”
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“If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel.”
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“If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.”
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“There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.”
Source : "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.
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“I was talking and playing pranks and skipping school, failing pretty much every class I took.”
Source : "Tig Notaro: You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry". Interview with Sydney Brownstone, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2013.
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“For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.”
Source : Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”
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“The Backstreet Boys....they really do have good music!”
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“Many of our threats are imaginary. The habits and even obsessions that we develop to keep them away are destructive and undermine our moods constantly.”
Source : Liz Miller (2010). “Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness”, p.82, Pan Macmillan