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  • By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.
  • And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.
  • In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day.
  • You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.
  • When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
  • Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.
  • God save our gracious Queen: Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?
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  • Benjamin Millepied 'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.
    Benjamin Millepied
    French dancer and choreographer (1977 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld 'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Arthur Capper A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Russell Lynes A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.
    Russell Lynes
    American editor, criticus (1910 - 1991)
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  • Bruce Nauman And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Biz Stone Balancing family and work is a top priority for me, and I treat it as such. Meaning, I actually put specific family time and events in my calendar so that precious time is dedicated and properly blocked off from any work that may try to sneak its way into my schedule.
    Biz Stone
    American entrepreneur (1974 - )
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  • Brendan Coyle By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.
    Brendan Coyle
    English-Irish actor (1962 - )
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  • Andrew Grove Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
    Andrew Grove
    Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author (1936 - 2016)
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  • Peter F. Drucker Decision making is the specific executive task.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Paul J. Meyer Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.
    Paul J. Meyer
    American businessman and business consultant (1928 - )
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  • Zig Ziglar Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Bruce Jackson First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Bill Bailey God save our gracious Queen: Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?
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    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Peter Marshall God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
    Peter Marshall
    Scots-American preacher (1902 - 1949)
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  • Lily Tomlin I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Lily Tomlin I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo Immunities that are valid as against the federal government by force of the specific pledges of particular amendments have been found to be implicit in the concept of ordered liberty, and thus, through the Fourteenth Amendment, become valid as against the states.
    Palko v. Connecticut
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Bjork In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Edmund Burke In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Carlos Ghosn In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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