Quotes with special-ness

Quotes 81 till 100 of 139.

  • William James Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Beth Henley Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro President Obama has regularly granted special access to reporters who give him preferential coverage.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Caroline Wozniacki Pretty hard to sweep me off my feet. It would have to take someone very special. You never know. I guess when you least expect it, it's going to come.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Bill Gates Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the programs down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they'll just stick in these checks without thinking how they might slow the thing down.
    Interview from Programmers at Work
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Marguerite Duras She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the ''woman of wax'' whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Barbara Boxer So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bill Sienkiewicz So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.
    Bill Sienkiewicz
    American artist (1958 - )
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • William Feather Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
    William Feather
    American writer, businessman (1889 - 1981)
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  • William Shakespeare Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carl D. Anderson Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
    Carl D. Anderson
    American physicist
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • Oprah Winfrey That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Bill Budge The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger.
    Bill Budge
    American video game programmer and designer (1954 - )
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  • Phillips Brooks The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Carter G. Woodson The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bastian Schweinsteiger The English have a special sense of humour. This I immediately experienced in the dressing room. As I walked with two plates while eating, suddenly a team-mate asked me, 'Basti, what time is it?' hoping I would automatically turn my hand to look at my watch. That's quite entertaining.
    Bastian Schweinsteiger
    German professional footballer (1984 - )
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  • Derek Walcott The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
    Derek Walcott
    Saint Lucian poet and playwright, winner Nobel Prize in Literature (1930 - 2017)
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  • Andrew Cohen The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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