"Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age."

-- Karl Kraus

#Age Quotes #Talent Quotes #Old Age Quotes

“I like what's going on in Finland, with the rebirth of Beherit. I also like a band called Oranssi Pazuzu and a band called Spiderpact. There's a great scene there where they don't really care what's going on elsewhere and create music in their own vacuum.”
“The moment is freedom. â€” I couldnâ€™t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.”
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
“I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.”
“Beauty is a fragile gift.”
“Those human groups that entertain a subjective belief in their common descent because of similarities of physical type or of customs or both, or because of memories of colonization and migration; this belief must be important for group formation; furthermore it does not matter whether an objective blood relationship exists.”
“I got into cooking out of self-defense.”

Source : "Mark Bittman’s answers to our food questions". Q&As, blog.seattlepi.com. January 10, 2009.
“You can't fulfill all the expectations of everyone you know, so you might as well go ahead & disappoint them & get it over with.”

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