Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.
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I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.
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Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
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The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
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I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
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I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.
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You can never have enough talent.
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I just want everybody to know my music and get to know my squad, Remy Boyz; just to show people New Jersey. New Jersey got talent, too. I mean, everybody sleeps on us, and they put us as the underdog.
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When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.
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Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.
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It always amazes me when I see young people with raw talent and passion.
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I think I rely on my talent more than my brain sometimes.
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When I was 14, I entered British Vogue's annual talent contest and got a special mention. I went up to London to meet the editors and wrote about it in my high school magazine.
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
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One of the cheapest commodities in the world is unfulfilled genius. All of us want to be known as a unique individual, the one who broke out of the pack. So, you offer yourself up as a sacrifice and what you’re afraid of is losing and being thrown back into the pack. One question taunts you. Do you want to have, or do you want to be?
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How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?
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The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
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Those props are as cunning as a bag o' weasels.
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One thing about me is that I don't like being told I can't do something.
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Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.
