"Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can."

-- Eugene Delacroix

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“I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly passion eddy continually.”
“I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.”
“To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is not even to come up with a solution, a sort of formula to control reality. Rather, it is an experience of release from all compulsions and sufferings, combined with a precise awareness of any relevent subject of knowledge. Having attained enlightenment one knows everything that matters, and the precise nature of all that is.”

Source : FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Oct 17, 2014
“I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.”
“Nothingâ€™s changed. Youâ€™ll go home. Youâ€™ll be bored. Youâ€™ll be ignored. No one will listen to you, really listen to you. Youâ€™re too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They donâ€™t even get your name right.”
“Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful.”
“When I finished my residency in New Orleans, I went to L.A. where I would work as a doctor during the day, and then at night I would actually go to The Improv and do standup, all the while kind of cultivating my comedy resume.”

Source : "Ken Jeong of "The Hangover Part II" The funniest doctor in America makes a house call". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. May 30, 2011.
“The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.”

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