"The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all."

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Source : "The Very Best of Victor Borge". Book by Victor Borge, 1995.

Victor Borge

#Piano Quotes #Long Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.”
“It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.”
“To me, music and fashion are the same thing. A good designer is the same as an incredible musician, and the two go hand in hand.”
“I look for an interesting and often times, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I've done recently. I look at who is directing. Those two variables as well as a third, which is the content and the quality of the screenplay. I look at the arcs of the scenes and characters and relationships.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the more I flee the more I am afraid the more I am haunted.”
“Perhaps depression is a perfectly natural reaction to the human condition.”
“Unless a man first finds himself, finds his own essential nature and destiny, and begins from them, all his efforts and achievements will be built only on the sand of personality, and at the first serious shock the whole structure will crumble, perhaps destroying him in its fall.”
“The kingdom of heaven was never intended to indulge the ease of triflers, but to the rest of them that labor.”

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