Quotes with special-case

Quotes 141 till 160 of 333.

  • Alice Walker It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's ''mature'' critics often are.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • John Wooden It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Baruch Spinoza It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Billy Dee Williams It was a time after 'Lady Sings the Blues' and 'Mahogany' and all those romantic movies: I became this romantic figure on the street in a very special way.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Buddy Rice It's always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.
    Buddy Rice
    American racecar driver (1976 - )
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  • Bertie Carvel It's an odd experience reading interviews with yourself. Interesting, though. Of course, you know that the journalist will have edited, rephrased or even rewritten what you actually said, but you can't help feeling that there's a special kind of truth in the way someone else paints you, however subjective they might be.
    Bertie Carvel
    English stage and screen actor (1977 - )
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  • Bill James It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold It's said that you can tell a lot about someone by who opposes them. In the case of liberal pundit Bill Maher - a man who called America's actions cowardly in the wake of 9/11 and who mocked WWII veterans who wanted to visit the monument built in their honor - I wear his disapproval of me as a badge of honor.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.
    Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
    American journalist
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  • Bruce Lee Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Betsey Johnson Just to see what a pink dress can mean to a woman, any woman, but a disabled woman, that's extra special and thrilling because they shouldn't be separated and their disabilities don't have to separate them in anyway.
    Betsey Johnson
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Bryan Singer Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.
    Bryan Singer
    American director, producer and writer (1965 - )
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  • Mary McCarthy Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a ''work'' of man.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bob Taft Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens, both present and future, are upon us.
    Bob Taft
    American politician and attorney (1942 - )
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  • Carlo Ratti Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Carine Roitfeld Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Bruce Babbitt Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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