"Opportunity is responsibility. It is a fleeing conjunction of circumstances. It is a test as well as a privilege. To be always equal to the opportunity, - what more could be said of the highest success in life?"

-- Lilian Whiting

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“You have to find a way to not become bitter and live within the parameters of the situation and laugh your way through itâ€¦and you hope for a better day for the next generation.”
“Sometimes I see the world for how f-ked up it really is. I tell myself I'll be the one to make a change in it. I could die tonight; not make it to the sunrise, then I couldn't hear the pain in it.”
“I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet I'm still playing places for kids.”
“Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.”
“As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.”
“If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs.”
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside â€” remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
“I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.”

Source : "René Redzepi: the outsider" by Sabine Durrant, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2010.

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