"Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints."

-- Bobby McFerrin

#Birthday Quotes #San Francisco Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Do you ever think that your life might be easier if you weren't in love with me?" â€” Edward Cullen”
“Self-censorship happens not only in China, or Iran or ex-Soviet places. It can happen anywhere. If an artist penetrates a certain taboo or a certain power through their work, he or she will face this problem. I'm always saying that commercial censorship is our foremost censorship globally today. Why do we still pretend we are free?”

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“The Transformation of the World is lavishly reinforced with critical apparatus (that, too, must have been a labor of Hercules to translate--I honestly never expected to see this book in English), but by far its greatest attraction is the intelligence and more important the wisdom of its author. It's a towering achievement no serious reader should miss.”
“Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.”
“I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadnâ€™t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldnâ€™t have been lucky.”
“If we do not feel like praying, then we should pray until we do feel like praying.”
“After too much art that made too much sense, artists are operating blind again. They're more interested in the possible than the probable, the private that speaks publicly rather than the public with no private side at all.”
“My partners... taught me that in order to create wealth, I needed to pair up with people whose strengths compensated for my weaknesses.”

Source : Kevin O'Leary (2011). “Cold Hard Truth: On Business, Money & Life”, p.11, Doubleday Canada

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