Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.
There won't be more Messis, and we don't expect there to be more, as there won't be another generation in La Masia like the one with Xavi, Busi, Puyol, Iniesta and me.
Perhaps five or even ten per cent of men can do something rather well. It is a tiny minority who can do anything really well, and the number of men who can do two things well is negligible. If a man has any genuine talent, he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full.
It is very hard to find a good defender who is strong and good with the ball. Very hard.
I'm not sure I'm the only savant with high IQ or with an above average IQ. Again, it may just be that we don't know very many of the others.
As far as revolutionizing the game and things like that, God doesn't make a lot of people like RGIII, bruh.
The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.
Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.
It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.
Hendrix was a natural genius who played many beautiful styles. Talent as great as his doesn't come through life very frequently. Hendrix was one in a billion.
So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?
God smiled on me in every sense. I was born a tenor, and you know what that means. Tenors are a rare commodity.
There aren't too many left-handed guys out there who can handle the ball and shoot it.
'Mad Men' is a hard act to follow. Unless you're called Elisabeth Moss, stuff like this only comes along once in your career.
Arsene Wenger was talking about comparisons with Johan Cruyff, a player who only comes around every 10 years and Thierry Henry is definitely one of those
But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.
Parts like Morse don't grow on trees. He's a great character.
Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
Extraordinary is a player who can score 60 goals. There are not a lot. Otherwise I think we would overuse the term.
From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African director Neill Blomkamp is one of those rare people.
There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.
Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.
