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Quotes About Rarity

The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen. Most relationships hover on a precipice for years before one party or the other finally decides it is time to jump, and coming to the decision isn't easy.
~ Laura Wasser
I don't think you can catch lightning in a bottle twice.
~ Mark Frost
People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.
~ Rachel Weisz
I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.
~ Jason Patric
There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.
~ Susan Orlean
Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation. That has always been part of its charm, Laroche loved orchids, but I came to believe he loved the difficulty and fatality of getting them almost as much as the flowers themselves.
~ Susan Orlean
Music is what feelings sound like, and to sing a meaningfully melodious composition like 'Suno apne dil ki' is a rarity.
~ Kumar Sanu
She's one in a million. And that's why she's lonely.
~ Joyce Rachelle
She was always at her best with him, with a delightful feeling of being understood. To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!
~ L.M. Montgomery
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
~ Juvenal
Imagine a speck of dust next to a planet a billion times the size of the earth. The speck of dust represents the odds in favor of your being born; the huge planet would be the odds against it. So stop sweating the small stuff. Don't be like the ingrate who got a castle as a present and worried about the mildew in the bathroom. Stop looking the gift horse in the mouth—remember that you are a Black Swan.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
that very rare ability called imagination, that rarer quality called courage, and who make things happen.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The answer is that there are two varieties of rare events: a) the narrated Black Swans, those that are present in the current discourse and that you are likely to hear about on television, and b) those nobody talks about, since they escape models—those that you would feel ashamed discussing in public because they do not seem plausible. I
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Outliers are increasingly unlikely. You
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
there is a disproportionate payoff from the unknown, since you typically have little to lose and plenty to gain from a rare event.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
My being here is a consequential low-probability occurrence, and I tend to forget it.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It qualified as a Black Swan, but I did not know the expression then.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The answer is that there are two varieties of rare events: a) the narrated Black Swans, those that are present in the current discourse and that you are likely to hear about on television, and b) those nobody talks about, since they escape models
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In other words, I aim at profiting from the rare event, with my asymmetric bets.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The rarer the event, the less tractable, and the less we know about how frequent its occurrence—yet the rarer the event, the more confident these "scientists" involved in predicting, modeling, and using PowerPoint in conferences with equations in multicolor background have become.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel goo, very good, when you are near or with them.
~ Charles Bukowski
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it. Basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them...
~ Charles Bukowski
the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the whiskey and wine entered our veins when blood was too weak to carry on; and it will happen to others, and our few good times will be rare because we have a critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter
~ Charles Bukowski
ihminen voi olla vanha ja tyhmä ? monet ovat, ihminen voi olla nuori ja viisas ? harvat ovat.
~ Charles Bukowski