Gifted Quotes - Page 18

• Dave Chappelle is about as gifted as it gets, as a performer and comedian. [...] It's always great to watch him work. He started around fourteen and he's in his forties now, so he's probably been doing it for close to thirty years. He's brilliant.

  Ted Alexandro

  Years, Comedian, Watches

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it" by Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• What is Camille Paglia doing, writing that an actress as gifted as Anne Heche has the mental depth of a pancake? How many pancake brains could do what Heche did with David Mamet's dialogue in Wag the Dog? No doubt Heche has been stuck with a few bad gigs, but Paglia, of all people, must be well aware that being an actress is not the same safe ride as being the tenured university professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

  Clive James

  Dog, Art, Writing

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• Senator Barack Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who I think can do great things for our country.

  Joe Lieberman

  Country, Men, Thinking

  2008 Republican National Convention Speech, Delivered 2 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• Messi is undoubtedly a gifted footballer, like Maradona and Pele, and he's playing for the best club side in the world at the moment. He's successful and he's winning trophies, so it's only logical that he'll be voted the best player in the world.

  Oliver Kahn

  Successful, Winning, Player

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• When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

  Mark Twain

  Native American, Son, Men

  Mark Twain (2016). “Roughing It”, p.319, Xist Publishing

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• Why must I have the Piglet?' 'Because you are the best.' 'I do not understand.' 'Teach him.' 'And who teaches me?' ' As an officer, my lord, you will have many men under your command and not all will be gifted. You must learn to use each man to his best advantage.

  David Gemmell

  Men, Piglet, Use

  David Gemmell (2011). “Quest For Lost Heroes”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Vulnerable, Gregarious

  "Orson Welles (1961)". "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 297, 1967.

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• Conventions are convenient. It is inconvenient to say people are dead when they are alive, or alive when they have been buried, or that the world is crumbling when it is, as everyone can see, there as usual. If all A that does not fit B is ipso facto disqualified, we have to tailor A to shape and size to avoid serious trouble, and not all are equally gifted in this art.

  R. D. Laing

  Art, People, Usual

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• All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards long life, honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth, victory over opponents, immortality after death, any desired rewards.

  Octavia Butler

  Children, Long, Honor

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• O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or City-burner! Thou too art a Conqueror and Victor; but of the true sort, namely over the Devil: thou too hast built what will outlast all marble and metal, and be a wonder-bringing City of the Mind, a Temple and Seminary and Prophetic Mount, whereto all kindreds of the Earth will pilgrim.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Book, Writing

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.129, Univ of California Press

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• There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart. One sound comes from a chamber orchestra, the other from the beating of the heart's chamber. One comes from an instrument of graphite and wood, the other from an organ of flesh and blood. This loftier music I speak of tonight is more pleasing than the notes of the most gifted composers, more moving than a marching band, more harmonious than a thousand voices joined in hymn and more powerful than all the world's percussion instruments combined. That sweet sound of love.

  Michael Jackson

  Sweet, Powerful, Moving

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• John Lennon was brilliant, so gifted, so giving. He was the Bach, Beethoven, the Rachmaninoff of our time.

  Sid Bernstein

  Giving, Brilliant, Lennon

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• As far as my experience goes, men of genius are fairly gifted with the social qualities; and in this age, there appears to be a fellow-feeling among them, which had not heretofore been developed. As men, they ask nothing better than to be on equal terms with their fellow-men; and as authors, they have thrown aside their proverbial jealousy, and acknowledge a generous brotherhood.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Feelings, Brotherhood

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2012). “Mosses from an Old Manse”, p.107, Lulu.com

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• There is, moreover, very little sense in preventing young people from giving expression to their ideas on the pretext that they have less experience than have older persons. There are many who may live a thousand years without encountering experience of any value. It could only be in a society of persons equally gifted that such an idea could have any meaning.

  Otto Weininger

  Expression, Years, Ideas

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.121, Рипол Классик

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• It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles.

  Roger Ebert

  Drama, School, Class

  Roger Ebert (2013). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007”, p.542, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Why will God's creatures sin against his throne? Can there be such madness in beings gifted with reason's light?

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Light, Thrones, Madness

  Charles Grandison Finney (1965). “So great salvation: evangelistic messages”

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• When I hear the name Michael Jackson, I think of brilliance, of dazzling stars, lasers and deep emotions. I think he is one of the world's biggest and greatest stars, and it just so happens that he is one of the most gifted music makers the world has ever known. I think he is one of the finest people to hit this planet, and, in my estimation, he is the true King of Pop, Rock, and Soul. I love you Michael.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Kings, Stars, Love You

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• Success in life isn't only for the gifted or the privileged or those with a high IQ. Success is totally dependent on three things: persistence, determination and a positive mental attitude.

  Denis Waitley

  Determination, Attitude, Persistence

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• The hiring of Phil Messina, the production designer, was a big decision. He's so gifted, and his ideas were always so smart and rooted in American history and architecture. Nothing feels like it's not us, or couldn't be us, and I think that's very important.

  Nina Jacobson

  Smart, Thinking, Ideas

  "Producer Nina Jacobson Talks THE HUNGER GAMES, Sequels, the Violence, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 12, 2012.

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• If I have a dynamite bass player - I have Darryl Jones - it's so easy to write for him because he's such a funky kid and he's gifted. He's like a little genius.

  Miles Davis

  Kids, Writing, Player

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.

  Vandana Shiva

  Diversity, Corporations, Wealth

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I think the part that people get confused is that when you come in National Football League at a young age, they tell you to try to look for other things to do, and be ready for everything else in your life just in case. But as soon as you have a bunch of success, they think that's the only thing you can do, that you can only be a football player. I think God has gifted me with so many other things other than just football, and that's what I want to bring to the world.

  Russell Wilson

  Football, Confused, Player

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• He [Patrick Stump] is been a friend of ours for a long time, and when we were talking about working with different producers and songwriters for the record, Patrick's name came up. We were excited to work with him - he's a very gifted lyricist and songwriter, and a really cool guy and it was a pleasure to work with him in the studio.

  Mark Hoppus

  Talking, Names, Long

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus On Blink-182's New Album, 'California'". Coup De Main Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

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• There was a time when fame meant that you were either someone who is really gifted in your field or you were making an impact or you are famous because you were a really horrible person, you know? But now, you can become famous by eating a frog. It's just not the same thing.

  Debbie Allen

  Impact, Horrible Person, Frogs

  "Legendary Dance Icon Debbie Allen and Vivian Nixon, Her Daughter". Interview to Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

  Charles Lamb

  Character, Nerves, Wit

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.9

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