"I really practiced hard and got to a certain level of technical proficiency. I overcame some of my limitations. I was a hard-working, dedicated bassoonist, but I have to say I'm not a natural musician."

-- Nicholson Baker

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“In about one-third of credit card consolidations, within a short period of time, the cards come back out of the wallet, and in no time at all, they're charged back up. Then you're in an even worse position, because you have the credit card debt and the consolidation loan to worry about. You're in a hole that's twice as deep - and twice as steep.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“I lost to a better player who played some courageous tennis and deserved to win.”
“I'm quite pregnant actually ... this is the adventure of a lifetime.”
“It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.”
“In opening your doors to woman, it is mind that will enter the lecture room, it is intelligence that will ask for food; sex will never be felt where science leads for the atmosphere of thought will be around every lecture.”
“Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.”
“When I started making music, I made music in a very commercial space and I didn't have room to really explore things on my own terms. It took me awhile to create a little bubble where I could explore other things, and new things. When I did that, my tools were songwriting and arranging.”

Source : "Robyn and Röyksopp: 'We Have Been Slightly Ahead of Our Time'". Interview with Nolan Feeney and Sam Lansky, time.com. August 20, 2014.
“Thanksgiving creates abundance; and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks-take the just one loaf, say it is enough, and give thanks-and He miraculously makes it more than enough.”

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