A Quote by Itzhak Perlman

Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.

Itzhak Perlman

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Itzhak Perlman
Israeli - Musician
Born: August 31, 1945

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

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

A prodigy to me is someone that is enormously gifted at a young age - to the point that people can't deny it. I think when you are a young kid and you are a prodigy, other parents, when their child is on your team, they aren't even mad that their kid isn't getting the shine because that other kid is special.

Jamal Crawford

Any messages for me?" Usually I got one or two, but mostly people who wanted my help preferred to talk in person. "Yes. Hold on." She pulled out a handful of pink tickets and recited from memory, without checking the paper. "Seven forty-two a.m., Mr. Gasparian: I curse you. I curse your arms so they wither and die and fall off your body. I curse your eyeballs to explode. I curse your feet to swell until blue. I curse your spine to crack. I curse you. I curse you. I curse you.

Ilona Andrews

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

Pierre Salinger

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

Larry Wilmore

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

Herbie Hancock

He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent.

Nick Hornby

The notion that those of us that are pro-life because we love children - is that so terrible? Really? Is that so terrible?

Ken Cuccinelli

I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.

Pardis Sabeti

You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.

Franz Liszt

I would sing around the house, and I would always play on things just because instruments were always there, but I didn't show any genius as a child. I wasn't a prodigy or anything like that.

Jack Garratt

I was a child prodigy who had a freak voice of something like four octaves.

Julie Andrews

immortality is a terrible curse.

Simone de Beauvoir

I was called a dance prodigy since I was young. A prodigy is like a genius. But I'm not a genius. It's just that what I do a little bit better than others, and that happens to be dancing.

Min

Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of variations... With basketball, you can correct your own mistakes, immediately and beautifully, in midair.

Jim Carroll

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