"There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck"."

-- Stanislaw Ulam

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“I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.”

Source : Stan Getz (2017). “Stan Getz - Omnibook: For B-flat Instruments”, p.2, Hal Leonard Corporation
“I was in an acting class taught by Eric Morris, and Jack Nicholson was in the class. He wrote the script for 'Head', so all of us in the class got little tiny parts in the movie.”
“An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.”

Source : "Europe has to take the initiative now". Interview with Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2004.
“People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the rule.”

Source : Jonathan Evison (2009). “All About Lulu”, p.233, Soft Skull Press
“I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me.”
“If it had been any different, if I had been born just one minute later, or been in the wrong pace at the right time or vice versa, the life that I've lived and come to love would not exist. And that is a situation that I would not want to consider in the slightest.”
“It has become clear just how divided our nation is - between young and old, north and south and those with different education and work backgrounds. So it is clear to me that the next leader of the Conservative Party must be someone who can unite the country.”
“We had a dog, Apples. He was 13 years old, toothless, blind and had the worst breath this side of Jabba the Hut. But he was the sweetest dog, and I cried and cried when he died.”

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