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"Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent."
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"But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly you can look at a thing the more entertaining you can be about it."
"There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure."
"Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better."
"Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them."
"To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity."
"The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best."
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"If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring."
"Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them."
"For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves."
"The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason."
"All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction."
"It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better."
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