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I never thought I would have any particular career in movies at all. — Paul Giamatti Copy Share Image
The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
So my weakness is sweets. I like bread pudding and cheesecake in particular. — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
I have a particular style of writing and my voice sounds a particular way, which lends itself to a certain style. — Brooke Fraser Copy Share Image
Eating outdoors is a particular passion - that is, eating trestle-table a la nicoise. — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
Motivation describes your attitude when you would rather do one thing more than another at a particular time. — Robert Anthony Copy Share Image
You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal. — Max Levchin Copy Share Image
Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective. — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is very certain that the strong British race which has now overrun much of this continent, must also overrun [Texas], and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Medical science in particular will get exponentially better, especially once computers will be powerful enough to digitally simulate entire human brains, meaning… — Benjamin Stone Copy Share Image
We owe this freedom of choice and action to those men and women in uniform who have served this nation and its… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I have been sitting around waiting for an opportunity to get to do something that matters for so long. Not just that… — Sarah Paulson Copy Share Image
The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
Wordsworth's particular grace, his charisma, as theologians say, has been granted in equal measure to so very few men since time was--to… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Sometimes one of the justices, because they're, you know, they're brilliant lawyers themselves, can put the question in a particular way so… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
However far back we may be able to trace the - so to speak - internal history of the Universe, there can… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
“Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
History has got a lot to do with unique circumstances under certain particular cases and grand theories will always find counter cases.… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
In talking about the [Emmett Till murder trial], you have to repeat the atmosphere. This is Mississippi in 1955, with a long… — Charles Diggs Copy Share Image
There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump's reaching out and supporting John McCain and Kelly Ayotte in particular, and Paul Ryan, who had been critical… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
The lights were off so that his heads could avoid looking at each other because neither of them was currently a particular… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Consider paint a film of light reflecting/absorbing material, and a colored paint a material which gives a particular, characteristic transmission of light… — Jo Baer Copy Share Image
The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Now, the Libertarian Party, is a *capitalist* party. It's in favor of what *I* would regard a *particular form* of authoritarian control.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image