"I know that great gifts come at a price, and that not all talent inspires admiration."

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Sally O'Reilly

#Inspire Quotes #Talent Quotes #Admiration Quotes

“Let yourself be gutted. Let it open you. Start here.”
“Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.”
“I know these dirty cops that'll get us in if we murder some Wop.”
“I just feel like all the things that I do in my life just make me feel like a grown-up kid. That's pretty much what I am.”

Source : "Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio and Blink-182 on staying young through BMX". Interview with David Anthony, music.avclub.com. May 27, 2015.
“Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess”
“I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place.”
“I never take it as any real pressure. It's like my son. I only gave him one lesson. When I went to give him the second one he said, 'Oh, I can do that dad.' I said, 'Now you're on your own.'”
“What was the good of industrial development, what was the good of all the technological innovations, toil, and population movements if, after half a century of industrial growth, the condition of the masses was still just as miserable as before, and all lawmakers could do was prohibit factory labor by children under the age of eight?”

Source : Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.8, Harvard University Press

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