"Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff"

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Leonard Bernstein

#Wine Quotes #Bluffs Quotes #Sophistication Quotes

“For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.”
“I thought I was supposed to have a fake six-pack in this scene”
“How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small.”
“I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents.”
“By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are light, or in great tension, or as a method of passing the time. A reliable witness is Cicero, when he says (De Oratore, 2): 'men who are accustomed to hard daily toil, when by reason of the weather they are kept from their work, betake themselves to playing with a ball, or with knucklebones or with dice, or they may also contrive for themselves some new game at their leisure.'”

Source : Gerolamo Cardano (2015). “The Book on Games of Chance: The 16th-Century Treatise on Probability”, p.57, Courier Dover Publications
“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
“I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.”

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