"Everyone thinks that having a talent is a matter of luck; no one thinks that luck could be a matter of talent."

-- Jacinto Benavente

#Thinking Quotes #Luck Quotes #Matter Quotes

“There is only one kind of life insurance, and that is pure protection based on a mortality table. All others are pure protection plus a cash value element that I call 'funny' banking.”
“Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like.”

Source : Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.218, Pan Macmillan
“Growing up, my mom would watch 'Notting Hill' a lot. She loves Hugh Grant.”

Source : "Secret Life's Ken Baumann Answers Our 17 Questions". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. March 23, 2012.
“The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.”

Source : Elizabeth Strout (2013). “The Burgess Boys”, p.268, Simon and Schuster
“I do a lot of brainstorming with my editors.”
“Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel.”
“I think if he [Donald Trump] goes to the super bowl, he thinks the guys in the huddle are talking about him.”

Source : "All In" with Chris Hayes, www.today.com. August 26, 2013.
“I worked on human rights projects in Haiti, Cameroon, and East Asia, and the bigger ones tended to do with agriculture. My role was to make sure that there was equity that remained at the base of those projects, with the workers. I had a couple of different lives.”

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