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Tag Name "Prodigy" (36)

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There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.
Samuel Johnson
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I have never been a child prodigy. When I think back to my childhood, I can not discern any sign of future success. My only real talent couldn't be found in any curriculum: whistling.
Bobbejaan Schoepen
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I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else ... I was not a Child Prodigy, because a Child Prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Will Rogers
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I listen to a variety of stuff on my iPod: Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Public Enemy, Foo Fighters, anything that gets my adrenalin flowing.
Chris Hoy
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Here is how to handle being a feral prodigy.
David Foster Wallace
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I call prodigy all that is invented, all that begins to exist from the second it is conceived, it is the process not the results, the principle and not the fruits.
Domenico Gnoli
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I don't remember anybody ever pointing me out as a dancing prodigy, but I played a not bad second base.
Fred Astaire
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Everyone wants a prodigy to fail it makes our mediocrity more bearable.
Harold Bloom
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For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.
Itzhak Perlman
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There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn geniuses do.
John Green
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I was never pegged to be the next great American tennis player by any means. I wasn't a prodigy. I'm a late bloomer. Whatever happens, I'm proud of what I've done.
John Isner
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Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
Jonathan Swift
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Freddie [Highmore] is great in the movie [August Rush]. It comes out this Fall and I play a young cellist, a prodigy, who is touring and doing concerts. She's very young and has a one-night fling with an Irish rocker, played Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who is also a really talented musician.
Keri Russell
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You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.
Larry Wilmore
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There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.
Luciano Pavarotti
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Many people used to call me a child prodigy, but I never thought that. I knew that I had learned everything, that I had very good circumstances.
Michala Petri
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The word prodigy was thrown around a lot, but I didn't understand what that meant, or the weight of it. It didn't really mean anything to me, until I was older and could look back on it.
Misty Copeland
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I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.
Anthony Doerr
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I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy.
W.N.P. Barbellion
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Oddly enough, my partner went on Prodigy when it first came out, and I ended up playing with some of that stuff!.
Bobby Sherman
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Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.
Chris Lowe
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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
Desiderius Erasmus
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I'm still as fascinated with the music business as ever. I'd love to do an electronic album like Prodigy or Underworld. I really like that sort of music.
Elton John
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If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.
Gioachino Rossini
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