#talents

I worked with the world's greatest talents and then went home to the world's greatest woman. It was, and is, a great life. ↗

— Perry Como

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Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

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But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would have suited my talents. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

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When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

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Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. ↗

— J. G. Holland

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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. ↗

— Horace

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One of my greatest talents is recognizing talent in others and giving them the forum to shine. ↗

— Tory Burch

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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

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I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

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